four o'clock
`` Turned out all right , Arthur has , '' thought Neale to himself . `` I was n't so far off , when I thought of the business college for him . '' Then he applied himself single-mindedly to his dictation , taking up one letter after another , with hardly a pause in his voice . But for all his diligence , he had not come to the bottom of the pile when four o'clock struck ; nor ten minutes later when , glancing out of the window , he saw Marise and the children with Mr. Bayweather and the two other men coming across the mill-yard . Evidently Mr. Bayweather had dropped in just as they were going to start and had come along . He stopped dictating and looked at the group with a certain interest . Marise and the children had had a good deal to say yesterday about the newcomers to Crittenden 's .