ten o'clock
As a child I was left alone a great deal , and I fancy that helped . '' It was a lazy Sunday morning -- the fourth in the month of May . John Forest had been gone a month , and Lady Touchstone was properly at church . Greenwich would have told you that it was ten o'clock , and the gorgeous tapestry of Summer was still wrought with the brilliant embroidery of a heavy dew . Lawns , flower-borders , and stiff box charactery sparkled and shone in the hot sunshine . The sky was cloudless : a haze kept to itself the distant promise of the park : there was no wind . The sleepy hum of insects , a rare contented melody , tilted the hat of Silence over that watchman 's eyes .