two o’clock
`` What can Josette be thinking of ? '' she exclaimed . `` Josette is beginning to neglect things . '' Mademoiselle inquired for eight days running whether Penelope had had her oats at two o'clock , because on one occasion Jacquelin was a trifle late . Her narrow imagination spent itself on trifles . A layer of dust forgotten by the feather-duster , a slice of toast ill-made by Mariette , Josette 's delay in closing the blinds when the sun came round to fade the colors of the furniture , -- all these great little things gave rise to serious quarrels in which mademoiselle grew angry . `` Everything was changing , '' she would cry ; `` she did not know her own servants ; the fact was she spoiled them ! ''