Three o'clock
` Again , three o'clock . ` That 's two guesses gone , you silly devil . Now then , what time is it ? ` So now I was obstinate , and I said _ Three o'clock _ . He took out his watch . ` Why damn you , how did you know ? I give you a shilling -- ' It was three o'clock , as I said , so he gave me a shilling instead of sixpence as he had said -- '' It was strange , in the silent winter afternoon , downstairs in the black kitchen , to sit drinking a cup of tea with Pancrazio and hearing these stories of English painters .