six o'clock
No wonder that Ruth often longed and sighed for one of the happy old Sundays at home . Gerald was less known to his cousin than any other member of the family , for he spent very little time in her society . He usually rose late , and after a hasty breakfast hurried away to the office whither his father had already gone . The girls did not see him again until six o'clock when he returned to dinner , frequently going out directly it was over to spend the evening with his friends . Yet , although Ruth saw but little of him , that little astonished her . She could never forget that he was only a year or two older than Will . A year or two made a great difference , she knew , but could Will ever become such a well-dressed fashionable young man , who grumbled at his mother if the dinner was not to his mind , scolded the servants , and argued and talked to his father just as if he were a man of his own age ?