four o'clock
It would be rather a long drive for you all by yourself in the little one . '' This was not the real reason , of course . He would n't want a chauffeur under foot while he was honeymooning about with Paula . Owing to a late start and an errand which at the last moment Paula wanted done in Chicago , it was getting on toward four o'clock when Pete drove Mary up to the loading platform of the old apple house at Hickory Hill . The farm Ford was standing there idling in a syncopated manner and apparently on the point of departure somewhere . Where , was explained a moment later by the emergence of Sylvia Stannard in her conventional farm costume of shirt and breeches with a two-gallon jug in each hand . `` Oh , '' she said , `` then the big car can take Miss Wollaston over to Durham , ca n't it ?