about four o’clock
I shall honour you , Gilbert , if you do so use it as to raise and support you , though of course I can not promise that she can be earned by it , and even that motive will not do alone , however powerful you may think it . ' Neither of them said more , but Gilbert sighed heavily several times , and would willingly have checked their homeward speed . He grew pale as they entered the town , and groaned as the gates swung back , and they rattled over the wooden bridge . It was about four o'clock , and he said , hurriedly , as with a sort of hope , ` I suppose they are all out . ' He was answered by a whoop of ecstasy , and before he was well out of the carriage , he was seized by the joyous Maurice , shouting that he had been for a ride with papa , without a leading rein . Happy age for both , too young to know more than that the beloved playfellow was at home again ! Little Albinia studied her brother till the small memory came back , and she made her pretty signs for the well-remembered dancing in his arms .