five o'clock in the afternoon
`` You 'd better go home , father , and lay down , and see if you ca n't get a nap , '' called Barney . `` Yes , I guess I will ; I guess ` twould be a good plan , '' returned the old man , in a pleased voice . And he went on , clambered clumsily over a stone-wall , disappeared behind some trees , reappeared in the open , then disappeared finally over the slope of the hilly field . It was just five o'clock in the afternoon . Presently a woman came hurrying across the field , with some needle-work gathered up in her arms . She had been spending the afternoon at a neighbor 's with her sewing , and was now hastening home to get supper for her husband . She was a pretty woman , and she had not been married long .