about eleven
o'clock
He petted her and went out and saddled a horse and put her on it and led the horse around the lot for ` bout an hour , right in the sun . And then she came in and began to honey around grandma and get things . I saw the game was spoiled for me , and wanted the time to go by so I could get away , or for somethin' to happen . Then about eleven o'clock grandma came into the settin ' room with apples to peel , and ma helped her and they began to talk -- and it was wonderful to listen , for it was about Mitch and Zueline . Ma said she 'd never seed such children , such a boy as Mitch , that he would be a musician or a poet like Longfellow when he grew up ; that he was dreamin ' all the time and believed in fairy stories , and made everything real to hisself . Then she said that Mitch thought so much of Zueline that it was enough to scare a body ; that if anything happened to her Mitch would go out of his head , and if they was separated it would kill him , and she thought they would be separated . That Mrs. Hasson thought of takin ' a trip , and takin ' Zueline , but was keepin ' it quiet .