six o'clock
`` I 'll make him pay for all this , some day ! '' she said to herself , shaking with anger , her grandmother 's own temper raging cyclonically within her . Her mood -- outraged against Craig , sullenly determined to marry him , angry with her relatives , her mother no less than her grandmother , because they were driving her to these desperate measures -- this mood persisted , became intenser , more imperious in its demand for a sacrifice as the afternoon wore on . When Grant Arkwright came , toward six o'clock , she welcomed him , the first-comer bringing her the longed-for chance to discharge the vials of her wrath . And she noted with pleasure that he , too , was in a black humor . Before she could begin he burst forth : `` What 's this that Josh Craig has been telling me ? He seems to have gone stark mad ! ''