about three o'clock
Then he sat down and smoked his pipe , and after dinner he returned to his pipe and his meditation . Lysbet wondered what he was considering , and hoped that it might be a letter of full forgiveness for her beloved Katherine . At last he rose and went into the garden ; and she watched him wander from bed to bed , and stand looking down at the green shoots of the early flowers , and the lovely inverted urns of the brave snowdrops . To the river and back again several times he walked ; but about three o'clock he came into the house with a firm , quick step , and , not finding Lysbet in the sitting-room , called her cheerily . She was in their room upstairs , and he went to her . `` Lysbet , thinking I have been -- thinking of Katherine 's marriage . Better than I expected , it has turned out . ''