three o'clock in the afternoon
Then he heard what might either have been a bell ringing for the fairies ' breakfast , or a ripple of the merriest earthly laughter very far away . Then he sat down to study . It took him quite an hour to arrive at a conclusion ; but when reached it was a momentous one . It was , that it is a mistake to be married in summer , for three o'clock in the afternoon is such a long time in coming . Craig Ronald lies bright in a dreaming day in mid-September . The reapers are once more in the fields . Far away there is a crying of voices .