six o'clock
I may not be of much use , but I feel now as if I wanted to be with him . To stay below with scarcely any other motive than to have a good time , and then to be paralyzed , helpless , when some shock of trouble comes , now seems silly and weak to the last degree . I am only too glad that I came to my senses in time , for if anything should happen to papa , and I had to remember all my days that I had never been much to him , and had left him to meet the stress of life and danger alone , I am sure I should be wretched from self-reproach . '' When he came at six o'clock , she met him eagerly , and almost her first words were , `` Papa , there has n't been any danger to-day ? '' `` Oh , no ; none at all ; only humdrum work . You must not anticipate trouble . Soldiers , you know , jest and laugh even when going into battle , and they are all the better soldiers for the fact .