two o'clock
Our help will probably want to wait to see if the new management is any improvement on the former control . '' The raillery of the youngest and happiest of the trio was seemingly lost on the two , now immersed in heavy responsibilities . Davy returned to the car ; Adine Lough would telephone a school friend and window shop while Landy went to the hardware store to buy some needed kitchen accessories as directed in a brief note that he had crumpled in a deep pocket . Before two o'clock the party was well on the way to Carter 's . Less than a month ago David Lannarck had traveled this same road . Then he was amazed at the shifting changes , the glory of its loneliness , and the utter absence of the curious and gawking . In his decade of travel he never encountered the land of his dreams , the wide open spaces that reached from here to the horizon and free of human beings .