nine o'clock in the evening
I trust it will be understood that he addressed himself , and not his lady-love in this uncivil way , -- `` D -- tion ! '' Then when the chair had been well kicked out of his way , he took himself up to bed . I wonder whether Clara 's heart would have been hardened or softened towards him had she heard the oath , and understood all the thoughts and motives which had produced it . On the next morning poor Mary Belton was too ill to come down-stairs ; and as her brother spent his whole day out upon the farm , remaining among reapers and wheat stacks till nine o'clock in the evening , nothing was said about Clara on that day . Then there came a Sunday , and it was a matter of course that the subject of which they both were thinking should be discussed . Will went to church , and , as was their custom on Sundays , they dined immediately on his return . Then , as the afternoon was very warm , he took her out to a favourite seat she had in the garden , and it became impossible that they could longer abstain .