about seven o'clock in the evening
An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness The next day was gloomy enough at Blooms-End . Yeobright remained in his study , sitting over the open books ; but the work of those hours was miserably scant . Determined that there should be nothing in his conduct towards his mother resembling sullenness , he had occasionally spoken to her on passing matters , and would take no notice of the brevity of her replies . With the same resolve to keep up a show of conversation he said , about seven o'clock in the evening , `` There 's an eclipse of the moon tonight . I am going out to see it . '' And , putting on his overcoat , he left her . The low moon was not as yet visible from the front of the house , and Yeobright climbed out of the valley until he stood in the full flood of her light .