six o'clock
Fossette pattered across the room , and sprang on to the bed and nestled down . Sophia ignored her , but Fossette , being herself unwell and torpid , did not seem to care . Jacqueline was late . In the quarter of an hour between six o'clock and a quarter past , Sophia suffered the supreme pangs of despair and verged upon insanity . It appeared to her that her cranium would blow off under pressure from within . Then the door opened silently , a few inches . Usually Jacqueline came into the room , but sometimes she stood behind the door and called in her soft , trembling voice , `` Fossette !