five o'clock
I 'm VERY fond of layer - cake , '' Rebecca Mary sighed , `` I suppose , though , after a few weeks '' -- she shuddered -- `` I shall be glad to have ANYTHING -- just common things , like crackers and skim-milk . Perhaps I shall want to eat a -- horse . I 've heard of folks -- You get very unparticular when you 're starving . '' It was five o'clock . They WERE going to have supper at half past . She could hear the tea things clinking in the house . She stole up to a window .