four o’clock
`` She had a severe fall while playing with little Isabel , and it is said she will be confined to bed for several weeks . I am very sorry for her . '' And , composing her face , she descended to the breakfast-room . The dinner hour at the Hares ' , when they were alone , was four o'clock and it arrived that day as usual , and they sat down to table . Mrs. Hare was better then ; the sunshine and the business of stirring life had in some measure effaced the visions of the night , and restored her to her wonted frame of mind . The cloth removed , the justice sat but a little while over his port wine , for he was engaged to smoke an after-dinner pipe with a brother magistrate , Mr. Justice Herbert . `` Shall you be home to tea , papa ? ''