one o'clock
Each day as Isaiah brought the mail she expected him to give her an envelope addressed in the familiar handwriting , but he did not . She was growing nervous -- almost fearful . And then came a happening the shock of which drove everything else from her mind for the time and substituted for that fear another . It was a Tuesday and one o'clock . Mary and Captain Shadrach , having had an early dinner , had returned to the store . Zoeth , upon their arrival , went down to the house for his own meal . Business , which had been very good indeed , was rather slack just then and Shadrach and Mary were talking together .