six o'clock
`` Will you have cash or a check ? '' he inquired . `` Cash , if you please . '' It was six o'clock when Bobs handed the money to the overjoyed bookseller , who could not thank her enough . The little old woman again was by the window and she smiled happily as she listened to the words of the girl that fairly tumbled over each other in their eagerness to be spoken . Then reaching out a frail hand to her `` good man , '' and looking at him with a light in her eyes that Bobs would never forget , she said : `` Caleb , now we can both go home to our children . '' Roberta promised to return the following day to help them prepare for the voyage .