six o'clock
But when the melting mood came over her , her conscience resisted and rose against them both . Edith , watching for the propitious moment , could not tell by what signs she would recognise it when it came . Her own hour was the early evening . She had always brightened towards six o'clock , the time of her brother 's home-coming . To-day he had removed himself , to give her her chance with Anne . She could see him pottering about the garden below her window . He had kept that garden with care .