one o'clock
The pathetic placard was still there , and he crumpled it in his hand , and went in and opened the windows . He milked one of the cows , and gathering some green stuff in the garden started back with the team and the sleds . Once down the steep decline , and over the rocks at the south , they went on rapidly . Although he had wasted no time , it was past one o'clock when he saw her familiar figure afar off . She hurried to meet him . They had not been separated so long before that year , and realized the unconscious strain in the sudden revulsion . They said nothing of this , however , though they clasped hands for a moment .