about four
o'clock
said Mrs. Greenow . `` I do n't think you 'll be so silly as that , my dear . '' On the present occasion Mrs. Greenow undertook that she would see the generous gentleman , and endeavour to stop the supplies from his farmyard . It was well understood that he would call about four o'clock , when his business in the town would be over ; and that he would bring with him a little boy , who would carry away the basket . At that hour Kate of course was absent , and the widow received Mr. Cheesacre alone . The basket and cloth were there , in the sitting-room , and on the table were laid out the rich things which it had contained ; -- the turkey poult first , on a dish provided in the lodging-house , then a dozen fresh eggs in a soup plate , then the cream in a little tin can , which , for the last fortnight , had passed regularly between Oileymead and the house in the Close , and as to which Mr. Cheesacre was very pointed in his inquiries with Jeannette . Then behind the cream there were two or three heads of broccoli , and a stick of celery as thick as a man 's wrist .