about three o'clock in the afternoon
Is Christmas Day to be reckoned as an ordinary day of the week , or as a Sunday , or as a _ dies non ? _ The reader must decide . Christmas Day that year fell on a Friday -- one of the three week-days tacitly allotted to Cai , who may therefore be forgiven that he chose to reckon it as coming within the ordinary routine . He did so , and at about three o'clock in the afternoon -LRB- which was bright and sunny -RRB- he reached the small gate of Rilla , to be aware of ` Bias striding up the pathway ahead of him . He gave chase in no small choler . `` Look here , '' he protested , panting ; `` have n't you made some mistake ? This is Friday . ''