six o'clock
I -- Miss Graham , I -- '' She had closed the door . He ran homeward through the rain , the storm which soaked him to the skin being but a trifle compared to the tornado in his breast . He spent the balance of the day somehow , he could not have told how . The rain and wind continued ; six o'clock came , and Seth should have returned an hour before , but there was no sign of him . He wondered if Mrs. Bascom had returned . He had not seen the carriage , but she might have come while he was inside the house . The lightkeeper 's nonappearance began to worry him a trifle .