Six o'clock
She had never wearied nor found it an irksome effort . A serious sad thought came to her ; when the hour of the inevitable parting came she prayed it might be her lot to be left desolate rather than his . She looked at her little watch , a delicate French thing , with a tiny painted picture on the back framed within pearls ending in a true-lovers ' - knot , one of Shawn 's many gifts . Six o'clock . It was time Shawn was home . She was very glad he had not ridden Mustapha , as he had wanted to . Patsy Kenny had dissuaded him .