seven o'clock
He endeavoured to calm her by loving caresses . He was not at all surprised that his wife should be troubled with anxious fear . He inwardly resolved he would so acquit himself this time that she should ever after , in this as in other respects , repose the most perfect confidence in him . As we said , on the morning in question he and Eddie kissed their loved ones good-bye and took the seven o'clock train for the place in which they had spent so many happy years . The wife and mother , with her two children who had accompanied them to the station , looked at the receding train with tearful eyes . It was a beautiful morning : the first beams of the slowly-rising sun , stealing gently above the eastern hills , scattered the mist of the morning and bathed the river and bay in its golden light . A robin , which was perched upon a maple growing not far from where Ruth and her children were standing , was singing its lay to the morning , and the atmosphere was balmy with the breath of flowers .