four o'clock
`` Now , '' said her grandmother , `` I 've put four squares of patchwork in the bag ; they 're all cut and basted nice , and you must sew 'em all , over and over , before you play any . Sew 'em real fine and even , or you 'll have to pick the stitches out when you get home . '' Ann Lizy 's radiant eyes faded ; she hung her head . She calculated swiftly that she could not finish the patchwork before four o'clock , and that would leave her only an hour and a half to eat supper and play with Jane , for she would have to come home at half-past five . `` Ca n't I take two , and do the other two to-morrow , grandma ? '' said she . Her grandmother straightened herself disapprovingly .