about ten o'clock
The brightness of the restored pin seemed to be reflected upon them all after this . Uncle Dick was so tremendously funny at breakfast that Polly fell from her chair with laughter , and Luella giggled so that she held a plate of griddle cakes at such an angle that the whole pile slid off on the floor ; then every one laughed more than ever and Molly said that her jaws fairly ached and that she would have to spend the day with Cap'n Dave 's old white horse , for he had such a solemn face it made you want to sigh all the time . Of course this started the children off again and they left the table in high spirits . Yet before the day was over they had occasion to look serious without the society of old Bill horse , for about ten o'clock Ellis appeared , trouble puckering his pleasant face into worried lines . He had forgotten all about the finding of the pin in a more personal interest , for the cares of life had been suddenly thrust upon him . His brother Parker the day before had sailed away to the Grand Banks for sword-fishing . He had left his young wife and little baby in Ellis 's charge .