half past five
On the next day he discharged the cook , hired a better one the third , dunned the delinquent boarder the fourth , and collected from him on the fifth ; so the May check -LRB- signed Clementine Chadwick Greenwood -RRB- was made out for eighty-five dollars . But in the midst of it all , when everything in the outside world danced with life and vigor , and the little house could hardly hold its sweet content , -- without a glimmer of warning , without a moment 's fear or dread , without the precious agony of parting , Mrs. Oliver slipped softly , gently , safely , into the Great Silence . Mercifully it was Edgar , not Polly , who found her in her accustomed place on the cushions , lying with closed eyelids and smiling lips . It was half past five ... . Polly must have gone out at four , as usual , and would be back in half an hour ... . Yung Lee was humming softly in the little kitchen ... . In five minutes Edgar Noble had suffered , lived , and grown ten years .