three
o'clock
Emily sat where she could not see her father eating ; it pained , exasperated her to be by him whilst he made such a meal . He ate slowly , with thought of other things ; at times his eye wandered to the window , and he regarded the sky in a brooding manner . He satisfied his hunger without pleasure , apparently with indifference . Shortly after three o'clock the two started for their walk . Not many yards beyond the house the road passed beneath a railway bridge , then over a canal , and at once entered upon the common . The Heath formed the long side of a slowly rising hill ; at the foot the road divided itself into two branches , and the dusty tracks climbed at a wide angle with each other . The one which Emily and her father pursued led up to stone quarries , which had been for a long time in working , and , skirting these , to the level ground above them , which was the end of the region of furze and bracken .