four o'clock
If he were brave and fine enough he might help her from very pity -- but if she were worthy , she must not permit him to do so . Then it was that the first wave of actual soul-loneliness enveloped the girl , and when youth recognizes such desolation something overpowers it that no older person can ever understand . And that very afternoon the great storm came that swept away so much and opened the way to more . It was four o'clock on that same day that Liza Hope passed Stoneledge on the way down to the store . Liza was always just getting over having a baby or just about to have one and her condition was now of the latter character . Poor , misshapen , down-trodden creature ! She accepted her fate indifferently , not because she was hard or bitter , but because she had never had a vision of anything else .