five o’clock
Job Crickendon 's farm was only about four miles from Welsley . Harrington 's horse might not be an exceptionally fast-goer , but surely he could cover six miles in an hour . Dion and Robin could get back in forty minutes at the most . They must have stayed on at Job Crickendon 's till past five o'clock . Could they have had tea there ? No , she was sure they would not have done that , when they knew she was waiting for them , was looking forward eagerly to tea in the nursery . When six o'clock struck and they had not returned she felt really uneasy , although she was not at all a nervous mother , and seldom , or never , worried about her little son .