five o'clock
It seemed untold wealth to Tillie , who never before in her life had owned a dollar . She ' did not risk carrying it all home with her . The larger part of the sum she intrusted to the doctor to deposit for her in a Lancaster bank . When , at five o'clock , she reached home and walked into the kitchen , her father 's eagerness for her return , that he might lay his itching palms on her earnings , was perfectly manifest to her in his unduly affectionate , `` Well , Tillie ! '' She was pale , but outwardly composed . It was to be one of those supreme crises in life which one is apt to meet with a courage and a serenity that are not forthcoming in the smaller irritations and trials of daily experience . `` You do n't look so hearty , '' her father said , as she quietly hung up her shawl and hood in the kitchen cupboard .