four o’clock
They were very nice tableaux , these , and I wish I could tell you about them ; but one can not tell everything in a story . You would have been specially interested in hearing about the tableau of the Princes in the Tower , when one of the pillows burst , and the youthful Princes were so covered with feathers that the picture might very well have been called ` Michaelmas Eve ; or , Plucking the Geese ' . Ironing the dresses and sewing the lace in occupied some time , and no one was dull , because there was the theatre to look forward to , and also the possible growth of hairs on the carpet , for which every one kept looking anxiously . By four o'clock Jane was almost sure that several hairs were beginning to grow . The Phoenix perched on the fender , and its conversation , as usual , was entertaining and instructive -- like school prizes are said to be . But it seemed a little absent-minded , and even a little sad . ` Do n't you feel well , Phoenix , dear ? '