eight o'clock
It held him strangely . He felt that he never could forget it . For some reason that he could not have explained , it made him sad , too , and his step was very quiet as he went up the walk toward the kitchen door . It was after eight o'clock . David had taken supper with Mr. Jack and Jill , and not for some hours had he been at the farmhouse . In the doorway now he stopped short ; then instinctively he stepped back into the shadow . In the kitchen a kerosene light was burning .