three
in the afternoon
`` I know it -- I 've been there before -- well ? '' `` Say , if your conscience will let you -- I know how tender it is -- say you saw me go over Lauvellen in the direction of Fairfield . Say this quietly -- say it to old Matthew in a whisper and as a secret ; that will be enough . '' `` I 've shared with that patriarch some secrets before now , and they 've been common property in an hour -- common as the mushrooms on the common -- common as his common saws -- common -- '' `` Robbie , the burial will take place the day after to-morrow , at three in the afternoon , at the kirk-garth -- '' `` Oh , that Garth , -- that devil 's garth -- that Joe -- '' `` At the kirk-garth at Gosforth , '' continued Ralph . `` Go round the city and the dale , and bid every master and mistress within the warning to Shoulthwaite Moss at nine o'clock in the morning . Be there yourself as the representative of the family , and see all our old customs observed . The kirk-garth is twenty miles away , across rugged mountain country , and you must follow the public pass . ''