four o'clock
She had gone home long ago of course . She said she was going to be very busy . Secretly he wished she had n't gone home , and that little Christopher too might for a bit be somewhere else , so that when he arrived he would n't immediately have to face everybody at once . He wanted to think ; he wanted to have time to think ; time before four o'clock came , and with four o'clock , if he had n't come to any conclusion about shutting up the inn -- and how could he if nobody gave him time to think ? -- those accursed , swarming Germans . It was they who had done all this . Mr. Twist blazed into sudden fury .