six o'clock
`` I always find your voice restful , Bawn . '' But I would not stay . I had promised my grandmother to be home by half-past six at latest , and I was not going to have her fretting about my absence . It was six o'clock now and the shadows were growing longer ; the coolness of evening was coming . The birds were singing their even-song . As I went down the marble steps in the grassy terraces from the house I saw the peacock and his lady already at roost in a low tree , although the darkness would not come for some hours yet , and indeed would be then only a green twilight . There was never anything to be afraid of on our roads .