5 o'clock
Why not deceive her ? He had the amount of a week 's wages in his pocket and he had but to absent himself from the house during the days to carry out the deception . Conscience was gone -- everything was gone except the desire to shield the ones at home . At 5 o'clock he climbed the stairs , feeling like a joint thief and millionaire , possessing the sort of conscience that both ignore . Kate met him at the door of their room and he smiled gaily as he kissed her then snatched the baby from between his feet where she had planted herself precipitously . Kate was looking at him when he took his seat near the stove in which burned the remnants of store boxes that he had found that morning . His eyes could not meet hers when she asked : `` Is it all that you thought it would be , Digby ? ''