four o'clock
As he stood staring she took the plate out of his hand and went into the kitchen . Not knowing what else to do he put on his hat and went for a walk . Later he went to the shop and tried to work , but his hand trembled when he tried to hold a tool and the hay-loading apparatus on which he was at work seemed suddenly a very trivial and unimportant thing . At four o'clock Hugh got back to the house and found it apparently empty , although the door leading to Turner 's Pike was open . The rain had stopped falling and the sun struggled to work its way through the clouds . He went upstairs to his own room and sat on the edge of his bed . The conviction that the daughter of the house was in her room next door came to him , and although the thought violated all the beliefs he had ever held regarding women in relation to himself , he decided that she had gone to her room to be near him when he came in .