one o'clock
Anne watched for a moment the hale old gentleman briskly walking on , the merry child frolicking hither and thither round him , and the sturdy body-servant Ralph , without whom he never stirred , plodding after , while Keeper , the only dog allowed to follow to the sheepfolds , marched decorously along , proud of the distinction . Then she went up to Lady Archfield , who could not be perfectly easy as to the precious grandchild being left to his own devices in the cold , while Sir Philip was sure to run into a discussion with the shepherd over the turnips , which were too much of a novelty to be approved by the Hampshire mind . It was quite true that she could not watch that little adventurous spirit with the same absence of anxiety as she had felt for her own son in her younger days , and Anne had to devote herself to soothing and diverting her mind , till Dr. Woodford knocked at the door to read and converse with her . The one o'clock dinner waited for the grandfather and grandson , and when they came at last , little Philip looked somewhat blue with cold and more subdued than usual , and his grandfather observed severely that he had been a naughty boy , running into dangerous places , sliding where he ought not , and then muttered under his breath that Sedley ought to have known better than to have let him go there . Discipline did not permit even a darling like little Phil to speak at dinner-time ; but he fidgeted , and the tears came into his eyes , and Anne hearing a little grunt behind Sir Philip 's chair , looked up , and was aware that old Ralph was mumbling what to her ears sounded like : ` Knew too well . ' But his master , being slightly deaf , did not hear , and went on to talk of his lambs and of how Sedley had joined them on the road , but had not come back to dinner . Phil was certainly quieter than usual that afternoon , and sat at Anne 's feet by the fire , filling little sacks with bran to be loaded on his toy cart to go to the mill , but not chattering as usual .