about four o'clock
`` Yes . '' `` Well , to-night , perhaps , if we can get away by ourselves . '' However , fate willed otherwise . `` Theodora , '' the doctor said , as they were leaving the dinner-table , that day ; `` there 's an errand I 'd like you to do for me , about four o'clock . I promised to send some medicine down to a house in Water Street for a sick baby . Can you take it down ? It 's nothing catching , '' he added reassuringly to his wife .