five o'clock
Suppose we have a canter , now we 're at the bottom of the hill . '' That is the great advantage of dialogue on horseback ; it can be merged any minute into a trot or a canter , and one might have escaped from Socrates himself in the saddle . The two friends were free from the necessity of further conversation till they pulled up in the lane behind Adam 's cottage . Dinah Visits Lisbeth AT five o'clock Lisbeth came downstairs with a large key in her hand : it was the key of the chamber where her husband lay dead . Throughout the day , except in her occasional outbursts of wailing grief , she had been in incessant movement , performing the initial duties to her dead with the awe and exactitude that belong to religious rites . She had brought out her little store of bleached linen , which she had for long years kept in reserve for this supreme use . It seemed but yesterday -- that time so many midsummers ago , when she had told Thias where this linen lay , that he might be sure and reach it out for her when SHE died , for she was the elder of the two .