four o'clock
* * * * * It was Mr. Twist himself who got on a ladder at five minutes past four that afternoon and pasted a strip of white paper obliquely across the sign of The Open Arms with the word . on it in big letters . Li Koo held the foot of the ladder . Mr. Twist had only remembered the imminence of four o'clock and the German inrush a few minutes before the hour , because of his being so happy ; and when he did he flew to charcoal and paper . He got the strip on only just in time . A car drove up as he came down the ladder . `` What ? ''