about four o'clock
But a single good one , frankly put forth , would have been better than duplicate or multiple reasons . He hoped that , on Sunday , a cold drizzle rather than a flood of sunlight might fall upon the autumn foliage of Indian Rock . And he would turn to-morrow to good account by looking , for an hour or two , at china . Sunday afternoon was gorgeously bright and autumnal in Churchton , whatever it may have been along the middle reaches of the Illinois river ; and at about four o'clock Randolph found himself in front of Medora Phillips ' house . Medora and her young ladies were out strolling , as was inevitable on such a day ; but in her library he found Foster lying on a couch -- the same piece of furniture which , at a critical juncture , had comforted Cope . `` Peter brought me down , '' said the cripple . `` I thought I 'd rather look at the backs of books than at the fronts of all those tedious pictures .