five o'clock in the afternoon
Now , the baby loved its bath . In any case its bath would have been an affair of immense and intricate pomp ; but the fact that it loved its bath raised the interest and significance of the bath to the nth power . The bath took place at five o'clock in the evening , and it is not too much to say that the idea of the bath was immanent in the very atmosphere of the house . When you have an appointment with the dentist at five o'clock in the afternoon the idea of the appointment is immanent in your mind from the first moment of your awakening . Conceive that an appointment with the dentist implies heavenly joy instead of infernal pain , and you will have a notion of the daily state of Mrs Blackshaw and Emmie -LRB- the nurse -RRB- with regard to the baby 's bath . Even at ten in the morning Emmie would be keeping an eye on the kitchen fire , lest the cook might let it out . And shortly after noon Mrs Blackshaw would be keeping an eye on the thermometer in the bedroom where the bath occurred .