six o'clock
This is all , except that , if it be practicable , I should like the burial to take place at the hour of sunset ; this seems the most fitting time . While the grave is yet open , please let the children sing together , ` Sweet Rest ; ' I always like to hear them sing this . To-morrow evening I have something to say to the friends who really seem to belong to me , -- Hal and Mary , Mr. Davis , Matthias , Aunt Peg and John , Jane and her husband . Please let them come at six o'clock . '' She closed her eyes wearily , and looked so white and beautiful , her small hands folded , and the fleecy shawl about her falling from her shoulders , and it seemed as if the material of life , like this delicate garment , was also falling from her . Desolation spread its map before me . I could think of nothing but an empty room and heart , and with Louis ' arms about me , I sobbed bitterly .