six o'clock
`` She will tell you when to be ready . In the meantime I must go , '' said Miss Goldthwaite with her pleasant smile . `` Good-bye , and success to the waggon-painting . '' Tom and Lucy Hurst peered anxiously out of their chamber windows at six o'clock on Monday morning to see a clear , calm , beautiful sky , with a faint roseate flush in the east , where , by-and-by , the sun would come up brilliantly . Aunt Hepsy was as cross as two sticks , and Uncle Josh morose and taciturn ; but even these things failed to damp their spirits , and at a quarter to eleven they set off , a very happy pair , across the meadow to the parsonage . Both looked well . Lucy 's mourning , though simple and inexpensive , was wonderfully becoming ; and some fine delicate lace , which had been her mother 's , relieved the sombre black dress nicely .