six o'clock
Miss Hathaway 's library was meagre and uninteresting , Hepsey was busy in the kitchen , and Ruth was frankly bored . Reduced at last to the desperate strait of putting all her belongings in irreproachable order , she found herself , at four o'clock , without occupation . The temptation in the attic wrestled strongly with her , but she would not go . It seemed an age until six o'clock . `` This wo n't do , '' she said to herself ; `` I 'll have to learn how to sew , or crochet , or make tatting . At last , I am to be domesticated . I used to wonder how women had time for the endless fancy work , but I see , now . ''