ten o'clock
At length , by degrees the people dropped in and filled the cars , and they get off . `` How early do you suppose we shall reach Greenfield ? '' said Fleda . `` Why we ought to get there between nine and ten o'clock , I should think , '' said her companion . `` I hope the snow will hold up till we get there , '' Fleda thought it a hope very unlikely to be fulfilled . There were as yet no snow-flakes to be seen near by , but at a little distance the low clouds seemed already to enshroud every clump of trees and put a mist about every hill . They surely would descend more palpably soon .