Ten minutes to four
In the course of a few short minutes difficulties which had seemed insurmountable had been swept from her path . Within her grasp was happiness so great , so dazzling that the very thought of it took away her breath . Her eyes fell on the watch at her wrist . Ten minutes to four ! Twenty minutes ago -- barely twenty minutes -- at the end of the field path she had looked at that little gold face with a dreamy indifference , wondering only how many minutes remained to be whiled away before it was time for tea . Even a solitary tea-drinking had seemed an epoch in the uneventful day . Uneventful !