two o’clock in the afternoon
If he does not pay me a farthing of my seven years ' wages , I do n't care ; I will not sleep in his house another night . He a gentleman ! '' Farmer Gray was delighted by Stafford 's generous indignation ; which appeared the more striking , as his manner was usually sober , and remarkably civil . All this happened at two o'clock in the afternoon ; and the evening of the same day he returned to Rosanna . Rose was sitting at work , in the seat of the cottage window . When she saw him at the little white gate , her colour gave notice to her brothers who was coming , and they ran out to meet him . `` You ought to shut your doors against me now , instead of running out to meet me , '' said he ; `` for I am not clear that I have a farthing in the world , except what is in this portmanteau .