four o'clock
She had plenty to think of and wonder about , and she liked to do her lessons in the ante-room , with the tick-tick of the clock in her ears , and the feeling that _ perhaps _ the cuckoo was watching her through some invisible peep-hole in his closed doors . `` And if he sees , '' thought Griselda , `` if he sees how hard I am trying to do my lessons well , it will perhaps make him be quick about ` considering . ' '' So she did try very hard . And she did n't speak to the cuckoo when he came out to say it was four o'clock . She was busy , and he was busy . She felt it was better to wait till he gave her some sign of being ready to talk to her again . For fairies , you know , children , however charming , are sometimes _ rather _ queer to have to do with .