about four o'clock
and Angela had to fight hard against any softening , telling Bernard that W. W. was a tremendous old maid , who had no notion of a lark . Robina , who stood in the peculiar position of neither accusing nor being accused , would not add her voice to the chorus of welcome , and did not wonder that every hour wore off something from the radiance of the beautiful bloom brought from the Bailey . Indeed , the unusual gravity and reserve of the younger sister struck Cherry 's observant eyes , and made her think at first that she had been much pained by having to part with Lance in his weak half-recovered state ; but when at tea-time the whole history of the illness was inquired into in detail by the assembled family , the downcast eyes and cheeks with which Robin encountered every mention of Captain Harewood 's good offices led to the inference that she had in her excitement forgotten the bounds where the brook and river meet , and was in an anguish of shame ; Wilmet meantime looking flushed with the fag of her vexatious day , and speaking plentifully of this same Captain , proving to herself all the while that she was doing so with ordinary gratitude and composure . Robina was quartered upon Geraldine in the holiday crowding of the house ; and somewhere about four o'clock on the summer morning , Cherry , wakening as usual , and reaching for her book , heard a voice from the corner asking if she wanted anything . ` No , thank you , Bobbie . Go to sleep again . ' ` I ca n't ; I 've been thinking about it all night .