About four o'clock
George related his adventures to his mother , and shed many a tear when he heard her tell of the trials through which she had passed during his absence . The future was still open to him , and he determined to fill it with joys for her which should in some measure compensate her for the sorrow and suffering of the past ; for George regarded poverty and want as misery , and did not see how his mother could have been contented , as she professed to have been . After dinner the site for a new house was selected , plans were matured for sending Mary to the Rippleton Academy , and Tony was to be kept at the grammar school till he was qualified for the high school . About four o'clock , when all these things had been fully discussed , George and Tony walked down to the banks of the lake . `` There comes the Zephyr , '' said the latter . `` We have fine times in her , George , I can tell you . '' `` Whose boat is she ? ''