about four o'clock
Anyhow young Vickerton found him hours afterwards walking up and down the shingle in the dark , waving his arms about and crying -- `` O , qui me gelidis convallibus Haemi Sistat et ingenti ramorum protegat umbra ! '' `` Talking German out loud to himself , '' said young Vickerton to his mother that night ; and it is possible that he had been doing it all the time . And while he was doing these things Priscilla was having calls paid her . Nothing could exceed her astonishment when about four o'clock , as she was sitting deep in thought and bored on the arm of a horsehair chair , Mrs. Pearce opened the door and without the least warning let in Mrs. Morrison . Priscilla had promised Fritzing for that one day to stay quietly at the farm , and for the last two hours , finding the farm of an intolerable dulness , she had been engaged in reflections of an extremely complex nature on subjects such as Duty , Will , and Personality . Her morning in the Baker fields and by the banks of that part of the Sym that meanders through them had tuned her mind to meditation . The food at one o'clock and the manner of its bringing in by Annalise -- Priscilla had relieved Mrs. Pearce of that office -- tuned it still more .