four o'clock
`` Say , '' said she , `` you 're a dandy . '' `` You 're a cheat ! '' returned Maria , with scorn . `` I 'm awful sorry I did n't wait on the corner till four o'clock , honest . '' `` You 'd better be . '' `` Say , but you be a dandy , '' repeated Josephine . Maria began to be conscious of other and more vital seasons than those of the old earth on which she lived -- the seasons of the human soul .