About five o'clock
Ravenel asked . `` For three days past , '' the groom answered . Francis made no comment whatever , but the next day he discovered the man 's suspicions justified , and the third , as he rode to Marlton , he saw Katrine , a pale-faced , desolate little figure , sitting on the garden bench , her head in her hands , the picture of despair . About five o'clock Jerry drove to the station for Dr. Johnston , and the same evening after the dinner Nora O'Grady 's son , a red-haired , unkempt boy of seventeen , brought a short letter from Katrine , asking that the doctor be sent as soon as possible . `` Mr. Dulany is drinking ? '' Frank said , interrogatively , to the youth . `` Something fierce , '' was the laconic answer .