five o'clock in
the afternoon
`` Will you come ? '' asked the soft voice , and he stammered an amazed and awkward assent . On the Saturday after the day upon which Nicholas had pledged himself to attend Sunday-school Juliet Burwell asked him to come into Kingsborough and talk over the lesson for the following morning . At five o'clock in the afternoon he dressed himself with trembling hands and a perturbed heart ; and for the first time in his life turned to look at his reflection in the small , cracked mirror hanging above the washstand in his stepmother 's room . As a finishing touch Marthy Burr tied a flaming plaid cravat beneath his collar . `` You ai n't much on looks , '' she remarked as she drew back to survey him , `` but you 've got as peart a face as I ever seed . I reckon you 'll be plenty handsome for a man .