seven o'clock on
Thursday
It resembled an insincere thought of suicide . Rachel , having gone , would still remain . The emotional prospects of the farewell closed his thought to the future . He spent Wednesday waiting for a seven o'clock on Thursday . An hour had detached itself from hours that went before and that followed . At home in the evening he endeavored to avoid his wife . His letters to her during her visit in Wisconsin had brought her back violently joyous .