five in the evening of night
Close to the ground was a low , restless , continuous mutter , -- the voluntary of Spring . Trennahan and Magdaléna rode or strolled in the woods during most of the hours of light . They could not sit on the damp ground , but they swung hammocks by the path-side to sit in when tired . Trennahan would have slept on the verandah had not his enthusiasm for outdoor delights been controlled by his matter-of-fact brain , but he grudged the hours at table , and persuaded Magdaléna to go early to bed that she might rise and go forth at five in the evening of night . After four months of snow and nipping winds and furnace heat , small wonder that he was as happy as a boy out of school , and that he made Magdaléna the most wonderingly happy of women . He did little love-making ; he treated her more as a comrade upon whose constant companionship he was dependent for happiness , -- his other part , with which he was far better satisfied than with the original measure . `` We will camp out up there during all of July and August , '' he said to her one morning , as they stood on the edge of the woods and watched the rising sun pick out the redwoods one by one from the black mass on the mountain .