six o'clock
`` I do not expect a single present , neither desire any if I have to make a speech , '' I said . `` Keep close to me , Emily , '' said Louis , `` and I will make the speeches if it becomes a duty . '' I feared Clara would get tired out , but she said : `` Oh , no , they will come early , you know , and go away early also , and with you and Louis to hold me up I shall be borne on wings ! '' At six o'clock they began to appear . We had our supper at four , and were ready to receive them . Louis and I sat in Clara 's sitting-room , and Aunt Hildy said : `` It 's my business to ` tend to the comin ' in . ` Better to be a door-keeper in the house of the Lord , than dwell in the tents of wickedness ; ' so that 's settled . ''