about two o'clock
And this was all so unusual with Barbara , whose body was too perfect , too sanely governed by the flow of her blood not to revel in the moment and the things thereof . She knew it was unusual . After her ride she avoided lunch , and walked out into the lanes . But about two o'clock , feeling very hungry , she went into a farmhouse , and asked for milk . There , in the kitchen , like young jackdaws in a row with their mouths a little open , were the three farm boys , seated on a bench gripped to the alcove of the great fire-way , munching bread and cheese . Above their heads a gun was hung , trigger upwards , and two hams were mellowing in the smoke . At the feet of a black-haired girl , who was slicing onions , lay a sheep dog of tremendous age , with nose stretched out on paws , and in his little blue eyes a gleam of approaching immortality .