eight o'clock before
It described a dizzy circle in the grass , shot down the driveway , and sped screaming along the dusty road . Before the trembling Mary had had more than time to discharge her commissions the car was back with half a dozen strong men , harvesters from the farm just below , crowded into the seats . And when Doctor Ballard turned his sweating horse up the drive half an hour later , Joel and Celia were between hot blankets , and stimulants had already stirred their sluggish blood . It was eight o'clock before the doctor left . `` I 've got to see the Packard boy , or I would n't go . I 'll come back and stay the night through . '' Persis nodded .