six o'clock
I am like a baby and need him to help me . '' She looked after him pitifully as he went up the stairs . `` Surely , '' she thought , `` we have paid dearly our debt to the country . '' He came down at six o'clock , still in his undress uniform , but thinking that his aunt would not like it . In a day or two he would have the civilian clothes he had ordered in Philadelphia . He need have had no such anxiety ; she was indifferent to all but her husband , who sat at table speechless , while Leila and John too consciously manufactured talk of the home and the mills -- and the ending of the war . After the meal Ann began her patient efforts to interest the Colonel with a game of cards and then of backgammon .