one o’clock in the afternoon
I mean to put my own fears and my own feelings out of the question , and to go with you to your wife , and try what I can do to reclaim her . Give me your arm , Isaac , and let me do the last thing I can in this world to help my son before it is too late . '' He could not disobey her , and they walked together slowly toward his miserable home . It was only one o'clock in the afternoon when they reached the cottage where he lived . It was their dinner-hour , and Rebecca was in the kitchen . He was thus able to take his mother quietly into the parlor , and then prepare his wife for the interview . She had fortunately drunk but little at that early hour , and she was less sullen and capricious than usual .