four
o'clock
Sticks and leaves caught in the frozen grass . The sky was sullen grey and the trees of black iron . Uncompromising was the severity of the country . At four o'clock the snow was again falling . The day had gone out . A window tinged yellow about two feet across alone combated the white fields and the black trees ... . At six o'clock a man 's figure carrying a lantern crossed the field ... .