nine o'clock
I had no intention of explaining its return to Maggie . Yet , small as it was in its way , it offered a problem at once . For Maggie has a penetrating eye and an inquiring nature . I finally decided to take the bull by the horns and hang it in its accustomed place in the hall , where Maggie , finding it at nine o'clock that evening , set up such a series of shrieks and exclamations as surpassed even her own record . I knitted that evening . It has been my custom for years to knit bedroom-slippers for an old ladies ' home in which I am interested . Because I can work at them with my eyes shut , through long practise , I find the work soothing .