four o'clock in
the afternoon
Your answer will come whence you do not look for it . For some , their only answer will be the coming of that which they deny ; and the _ Presence _ will be a very different thing to those who desire it and those who do not . In the mean time , if we are not yet able to serve like God from pure love , let us do it because it is his way ; so shall we come to do it from pure love also . The very next morning , as she called it -- that is , at four o'clock in the afternoon -- Hesper again entered the shop , and , to the surprise and annoyance of the master of it , was taken by Mary through the counter and into the house . `` What a false impression , '' thought the great man , `` will it give of the way _ we _ live , to see the Marstons ' shabby parlor in a warehouse ! '' But he would have been more astonished and more annoyed still , had the deafening masses of soft goods that filled the house permitted him to hear through them what passed between the two . Before they came down , Mary had accepted a position in Mrs. Redmain 's house , if that may be called a position which was so undefined ; and Hesper had promised that she would not mention the matter .