four o'clock
It was a beautiful afternoon , just the afternoon for a swim , and he was debarred from swimming , not only that day , but for all the summer days to come . No matter what Seth 's new secret might be , it was surely not connected with the female sex , and Brown would be true to the solemn compact between them . He could not bathe in the cove because Miss Graham would be there . At four o'clock he stood in the shadow of the light tower looking across the cove . As he looked he saw Miss Graham , in bathing attire , emerge from the bungalow and descend the bluff . She did not see him and , to make sure that she might not , he dodged back out of sight . Then he saw something else .