four o'clock
she said , and she sat down on the brick floor to take off her stockings . Gemma 's _ fidanzato _ , her lawyer from Lucca , was coming to Siena for a week . He would lodge next door and come in to the Menotti for most of his meals , and already poor old Carolina was busy in the hot , airless kitchen , beating up eggs for a _ zabajone _ , and Signora Carosi had gone out to buy ice for the wine and sweet cakes to be handed round with little glasses of _ vin _ Santo or Marsala . Carmela came into her cousin 's room soon after four o'clock . `` I have just taken Gemma a cup of black coffee . Her head aches terribly . '' `` I heard her moving about her room in the night , '' Olive answered , and she added , under her breath , `` Poor Gemma ! ''