six o'clock in the evening
`` I thought you 'd forgotten all -- that . I -- thought you 'd become a sort of ` hired girl ' in this village . Guess I 'll have to wait until after supper -- seeing you want me to . '' It was well past six o'clock in the evening when the two brothers completed the discussion of their future plans . It had been a great day for Bill . A day such as one may look forward to in long anticipatory moments of dreaming , but the ultimate realization of which often falls so desperately short of the anticipation . In the present instance , however , no such calamity had befallen .