about three o'clock
And for a day and a half the sight of Mary 's happiness -- a spectacle which Mary did not spare her -- had made Ally restless . Under the incessant sting of it her longing for Greatorex became insupportable . On Sunday the Vicar was still too deeply afflicted by the same circumstance to notice Ally 's movements , and Ally took advantage of his apathy to excuse herself from Sunday school that afternoon . And about three o'clock she was at Upthorne Farm . She and Greatorex had found a moment after morning service to arrange the hour . * * * * * And now they were standing together in the doorway of the Farmhouse . In the house behind them , in the mistal and the orchard , in the long marshes of the uplands and on the brooding hills there was stillness and solitude .