five o'clock
He went first to see Raoul Marcel , and found him innocently practising the `` Gloria '' for the big confirmation service on Sunday while he polished the mirrors of his father 's saloon . As Emil rode homewards at three o'clock in the afternoon , he saw Amedee staggering out of the wheatfield , supported by two of his cousins . Emil stopped and helped them put the boy to bed . When Frank Shabata came in from work at five o'clock that evening , old Moses Marcel , Raoul 's father , telephoned him that Amedee had had a seizure in the wheatfield , and that Doctor Paradis was going to operate on him as soon as the Hanover doctor got there to help . Frank dropped a word of this at the table , bolted his supper , and rode off to Sainte-Agnes , where there would be sympathetic discussion of Amedee 's case at Marcel 's saloon . As soon as Frank was gone , Marie telephoned Alexandra . It was a comfort to hear her friend 's voice .