six o'clock
Her father flatly refused to comply with her crazy wishes , and very earnestly exhorted her to trouble herself no farther about the castle and its owner . As for the gardener , he had cautiously intimated repeatedly that it would be unnatural for so young , robust , and beautiful a woman to remain a widow long , especially when there was some one who would consider himself only too happy to put an end to her widowhood , and he now added his entreaties to the old man 's that she would at last banish from her mind the memory of the evil past . Accident rendered Panna the service she had vainly asked of the two men . One evening , when she was returning from the fields , she passed the housekeeper at the castle who , with her back to the road , stood leaning against the low half-door of a peasant 's hut , and called to her friend who was working in the yard : `` Well , the master wrote to-day ; he wants János to bring the carriage at six o'clock to-morrow morning to take him from the prison . '' At this moment the peasant woman saw Panna passing , and made the housekeeper a sign which silenced her at once . But Panna had heard enough . She quickened her pace to reach home quickly , put down her hoe , and ascertained that her father was already in the house .