four o'clock
sighed Alicia . `` A letter from HIM ! Oh , girls , I 'm so happy ! How CAN I wait for four o'clock ! '' She ran away to tell Mrs. Berry of the letter . `` Very well , '' said the kind-hearted woman , `` it 's just as well to have him come to-day . Suppose we have tea in the small reception room , it 's cosier than the drawing-room . ''