one o’clock
Oh , I know you 're thinking my house needed it ... you 've got a very expressive face , Anne ; your thoughts just come out on it like print ... but it did n't , not that bad . It had got pretty mixed up while I was keeping bachelor 's hall , I admit , but I 'd got a woman to come in and clean it up before I was married and there 'd been considerable painting and fixing done . I tell you if you took Emily into a brand new white marble palace she 'd be into the scrubbing as soon as she could get an old dress on . Well , she cleaned house till one o'clock that night and at four she was up and at it again . And she kept on that way ... far 's I could see she never stopped . It was scour and sweep and dust everlasting , except on Sundays , and then she was just longing for Monday to begin again . But it was her way of amusing herself and I could have reconciled myself to it if she 'd left me alone .