six o'clock
`` The river ? In Medfield ? But , why -- ? '' `` Edith says you and she had a good deal of sentiment about the river , and -- '' `` At six o'clock , on a March evening ? '' said Maurice . He put his hands in his pockets and began to walk up and down . Mrs. Houghton had nothing more to say ; the room was so silent that the dining-room door opened a furtive crack -- then closed quickly !