six o'clock
Of course , I know nothing against the man -- it is only a feeling . '' `` Well , feelin 's are mighty queer things sometimes , '' remarked Miss Polly , scoring a triumph which left the indignant Gabriella at her mercy ; `` and when I come to think of it ; I do n't recollect that yours have always been such good judges of folks . '' The geraniums arrived in a small cart the next morning , but O'Hara did not appear , and for several weeks , though Gabriella glanced suspiciously at the hatrack each morning when she passed through the hail , there was no sign of life in his rooms . Then one afternoon he reappeared as suddenly as he had vanished , and she found Archibald with him in the yard when she came home at six o'clock . That the boy would be her difficulty , she knew by instinct , for he had been seized by one of those unaccountable romantic fancies to which the young of the race are disposed . Though the sentiment was certainly far less dangerous than Fanny 's passion for the , matinée idol , since it revealed itself principally as a robust and wholly masculine ambition to follow in the footsteps of adventure , Gabriella fought it almost as fiercely as she had fought Fanny 's incipient love affair . `` He is making Archibald rough , '' she said to Miss Polly , after a fortnight of unavailing opposition to the new influence in Archibald 's life .