ten o'clock
Two prayed , in defiance of their scruples , for his wicked , wild soul . And these were only an old woman and her fisherman son . It was a still , beautiful evening in summer . Perrin Corbet was free till ten o'clock , when he would go fishing with Jean Cartier . It was very lonely now in the cottage , for Perrin 's mother was dead , and he spent very little time at home . This special evening he decided to make a pilgrimage to the churchyard of St. Pierre du Bois where his mother was buried . Her grave was close to the church in a place of long grass and overshadowing trees .