nearly
four o'clock
We have enough berries now , I think , and we had better take them home . By the time we have decked the house with this and hung up the mistletoe , we must think of starting to meet him . '' Thomasin came out of the tree , shook from her hair and dress the loose berries which had fallen thereon , and went down the hill with her aunt , each woman bearing half the gathered boughs . It was now nearly four o'clock , and the sunlight was leaving the vales . When the west grew red the two relatives came again from the house and plunged into the heath in a different direction from the first , towards a point in the distant highway along which the expected man was to return . How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream Eustacia stood just within the heath , straining her eyes in the direction of Mrs. Yeobright 's house and premises . No light , sound , or movement was perceptible there .