about ten
o'clock
And that instant , for the first time in all their lives , Caleb 's arms were upholding her , and Amanda had received her crown . Caleb had kissed her . `` Say , ` Mandy , '' said he , when they parted , an hour later , by the syringa bush at the back door , `` the world wo n't come to an end if you do n't iron of a Tuesday . I was thinkin ' we could ketch Passon True about ten o'clock better 'n we could in the arternoon . '' The Old Ladies ' Home , much to the sorrow of its inmates , `` set back from the road . '' A long , box-bordered walk led from the great door down to the old turnpike , and thickly bowering lilac-bushes forced the eye to play an unsatisfied hide-and-seek with the view . The sequestered old ladies were quite unreconciled to their leaf-hung outlook ; active life was presumably over for them , and all the more did they long to `` see the passing '' of the little world which had usurped their places .