about four o'clock
`` Never mind , '' says Nutt . `` You wait and see ! And the first chance you get ask Sukey if he 's afraid of bears . '' Just to finish off the afternoon too , and make the Corrugated gen ` ral offices seem more like a fam ` ly meetin ' place , about four o'clock in blows Sister Marjorie from the shoppin ' district , trailin ' a friend with her ; a stranger too . First off , from a hasty glimpse at the hard-boiled lid and the man 's collar and the loose-fittin ' top coat , I thought it was some chappy . So it 's more or less of a shock when I discovers the short skirt and the high walkin ' boots below . Then I tumbled .