about one
o'clock
In Hooker 's Bend every one dines precisely at twelve , and at that hour the streets are empty . It would be some time before Cissie came back down the street on her way to Niggertown . She first would have to wash and put away the Arkwright dishes . It would be somewhere about one o'clock . Nevertheless , he kept staring out through the radiance of the autumn sunlight with an irrational feeling that she might appear at any moment . He was afraid she would slip past and he not see her at all . The thought disturbed him somewhat .