four o'clock
`` I 'll scare the kids to death if they see me like this . '' Edith was in the parlor . She had sat there almost all day , in an agony of fear . At four o'clock the smallest Wilkinson had hammered at the front door , and on being admitted had made a shameless demand . `` Bed and thugar , '' she had said , looking up with an ingratiating smile . `` You little beggar ! '' `` Bed and thugar . ''