about three o'clock in the afternoon
He furnished it beautiful , every room like a best parlor , -- carpets and sofys and lace curt ` ins , -- there was nothing too good . But her own room was all pansies , -- everything made to order , with that pattern and nothing else . It 's a sight to see to-day , fifty years since ' t was all fresh and new . `` One day -- my dear young ladies , the ways of the Lord are very strange by times , but we must truly think that they _ are _ his ways , and so better than ours , -- one day Miss Wealthy was looking for her sweetheart at the usual time of his coming , about three o'clock in the afternoon . The morning had been fine , but the weather seemed to be coming up bad , Mary thought ; and old Mr. Bond thought so , too , for he came out on the piazza where Mary was sorting out garden-herbs , and said , ` Daughter , I think Victor will drive to-day . There is a squall coming up ; it is n't a good day for the water . ' `` And it was n't , Mary said ; for an ugly black cloud was coming over , and under it the sky looked green and angry .