three o'clock
See here , dear , you and I are quite gloriously mad , but others are stupidly sane and we 've got to think of them . '' Truedale was talking over her head , but already Nella-Rose accepted this as a phase of their new relations . A mountain man might still love his woman even if he beat her and , while Nella-Rose would have scorned the suggestion that she was a mountain woman , she did seriously believe that men were different from women and that was the end of the matter ! `` You run along , small girl of mine -- the skies are clear , the sun warm -- but I want you to meet me at three o'clock at the spot where the trail joins the road . I will be there and I will wait for you . '' `` But why ? -- why ? ''