four o'clock
After the meal the canvassing began , Miss Toland doing all the talking , while Julia stared about the small , stuffy interiors , and smiled at the babies and old women . Miss Toland jotted down in her book all the details she gathered in each house , and only stopped in her quest when the hour and the darkened houses reminded her that the evening was flying . This might keep up every free evening for two weeks ; it would end as suddenly as it began , and Miss Toland enter upon a lazy and luxurious phase . She would spend whole mornings and even afternoons in bed , reading and dozing , and fresh from a hot bath at four o'clock , would summon her assistant and make a suggestion or two . `` Julia , suppose we go down to the Palace for tea ? '' Julia , standing gravely in the doorway , considered . `` The girls wo n't be gone for another hour , Miss Toland ! ''