about ten o'clock
It is spreading out our troubles and our joys and our perplexities and our needs , and finding God Himself the best possible answer to them all . Robert Hardy had been learning this of late , and it was the one thing that made possible to him the calmness of the last two days allotted him . The day was spent in much the same way that the other days had been spent . He went down to his office about ten o'clock , and after coming home to lunch went down again , with the intention of getting through all the business and returning home to spend the rest of the time with the family . Along towards three o'clock , when the routine work of the shops was disposed of , the manager felt an irresistible desire to speak to the men in his employ . Those in his department numbered about eight hundred , and he knew how impossible it would be for him to speak to them individually . He thought a minute and then called Burns in and gave an order that made the foreman stare in the most undisguised wonder .