about four
o'clock in the afternoon
But that 's ten years since , old woman -- why , it 's almost forgotten . '' `` And if it had happened a hundred years ago I should n't have forgotten it , oh no . '' The woman put out her hand as though to ward off something . `` I was just going to make myself some coffee about four o'clock in the afternoon , like to-day , I had got such a longing for it , and then it started . I just got as far as the passage -- do you remember , you were still working in Stiller 's workshop at the time , and we lived in the Alte Jakob , fifth storey to the left ? -- and I knocked at Fritze 's , the necktie maker 's , whose door was opposite ours , and said : ` Oh , please , ' I said , ` send your little one as quickly as you can to Frau Wadlern , 10 , Spittelmarkt , she knows all about it ' -- oh dear , how bad I felt . And I fell down on the nearest chair ; they had the greatest difficulty to get me home again .