four o'clock
Miss Masters was even more confident than Vivian that the hard corner had been turned . So the verdict went to Hen Cooney , who telephoned from Saltman 's ; and so it went to Jem Noonan , who was to be found waiting in front of the Dabney House every evening in these days , silently biting a Heth Plantation Cheroot , which he smoked because Kern made them , though secretly preferring the White River brand , made by the Trust . A great capacity for waiting had Jem . And that was the afternoon also that Doctor mysteriously vanished from his office before four o'clock , having left no word where he could be reached with his office-boy , Mrs. Garland ; and was still out when O'Neill called at quarter to six , to talk about his factory law ... . Next day , these novel excitements continued . For when Corinne Garland first opened her eyes that morning , they fell at once upon an imagined wonder out of fairyland . There it stood close to her bed 's head , shining gloriously in the early sun , looking , oh , so real ... .