four o'clock
`` That -- er -- insect I put in your pa 's ear must have touched both your brains , I cal ` late , '' he drawled . But he was pleased , nevertheless . If he was a fool it was something to have people think him a good sort of fool . It was almost four o'clock when Jed 's next visitor came . He was the one man whom he most dreaded to meet just then . Yet he hid his feelings and rose with hand outstretched . `` Why , good afternoon , Major ! ''