six o’clock
`` Probably , but I prefer to go the way you went yesterday . '' `` Very well , it 's all the same to me . '' They were silent again , only the wind roared around them , and somewhere in the distance a fog horn moaned . It was now six o'clock . The snow threw out a mild light which could not brighten the deep darkness around them . About half an hour later the first cab halted . `` There 's the house up there .