four o'clock
The boy was enthralled , he could not speak his delight , but he looked into his grandfather 's face with eyes painfully eloquent . It was evident that he had life to learn , not gradually , as the usual infant learns it ; but that its good and evil would assail him through all his senses in their full force . And Ruleson understood , partially , how abnormally large and important very trivial events might appear to him . Soon after four o'clock they arrived at their destination , and found a train omnibus about to go their way . Ruleson lifted his grandson into it , and the vehicle set them down at the foot of his own hill ; then he carried the boy up to the cottage in his arms . The door was closed , but there was the shining of fire and candlelight through the windows . Yet their arrival was unnoticed , until Ruleson entered and stood the little child in the middle of the room .