ten o'clock in the morning
If you 'd kept away another month -- '' There was a husky break in his voice , and he coughed to clear it . `` You do n't mind if I talk , do you -- about her , an ' the kid ? I 've got to do it , or bust , or go mad . I 've got to because -- to-day -- she was twenty-four -- at ten o'clock in the morning -- an ' it 's our wedding day -- '' The half gloom hid from Brokaw what was in the other 's face . And then Billy laughed almost joyously . `` Say , but she 's been a true little pardner , '' he whispered proudly , as there came a lull in the storm . `` She was just born for me , an ' everything seemed to happen on her birthday , an ' that 's why I ca n't be downhearted even NOW .