eleven
o'clock
It was all beyond her . She strolled wretchedly within bounds , with a foreboding of impending evil . She watched Lew in the garden ; she got her aunt to let her help with the churning -- drive the dasher monotonously up and down until the butter came ; then she helped work the butter , helped gather the vegetables for dinner , did everything and anything to keep herself from thinking . Toward eleven o'clock her Uncle Zeke appeared in the dining-room , called his wife from the kitchen . Susan felt that at last something was to happen . After a long time her aunt returned ; there were all the evidences of weeping in her face . `` You 'd better go to your room and straighten it up , '' she said without looking at the girl .