two o’clock
Mr. and Mrs. Shelby both felt annoyed and degraded by the familiar impudence of the trader , and yet both saw the absolute necessity of putting a constraint on their feelings . The more hopelessly sordid and insensible he appeared , the greater became Mrs. Shelby 's dread of his succeeding in recapturing Eliza and her child , and of course the greater her motive for detaining him by every female artifice . She therefore graciously smiled , assented , chatted familiarly , and did all she could to make time pass imperceptibly . At two o'clock Sam and Andy brought the horses up to the posts , apparently greatly refreshed and invigorated by the scamper of the morning . Sam was there new oiled from dinner , with an abundance of zealous and ready officiousness . As Haley approached , he was boasting , in flourishing style , to Andy , of the evident and eminent success of the operation , now that he had `` farly come to it . '' `` Your master , I s ' pose , do n't keep no dogs , '' said Haley , thoughtfully , as he prepared to mount .