four o'clock in the afternoon
Mrs. Nevill Tyson did not take the furniture very seriously . For quite three days after her arrival she was content to sit in that very respectable drawing-room , waiting for the callers who never came . She could not have taken the callers very seriously either -LRB- what _ did _ Mrs. Nevill Tyson take seriously , I should like to know ? -RRB- , or else , surely she would have had some little regard for appearances ; she would never have risked being caught at four o'clock in the afternoon sitting on Tyson 's knee , doing all sorts of absurd things to his face . First , she stroked his hair straight down over his forehead , which had a singularly brutalizing effect , so that she was obliged to push it back again and make it all neat with one of the little tortoise-shell combs that kept her own curls in order . Then she lifted up his mustache till the lip curled in a dreadful mechanical smile , showing a slightly crooked , slightly prominent tooth . `` Oh , what an ugly tooth ! ''