four o'clock
Her eyes flashed up to his and in them shone the sweetest light imaginable . `` But just for now I 'm sitting on the floor again . '' They forgot all about lunch . Richard Frencham Altar awoke betimes -- as a fact he had been disturbed when the four o'clock patrol came round but subsequently slept for another spell . In the shuffle up he had changed the order of his companions and as he opened his eyes for the second time he found himself beside an old lady , generously skirted and shawled , who wore a hat from which the bare quills of several ostrich feathers pointed this way and that in raffish confusion . In her lap was a sack containing her various possessions . Richard watched dreamily as she emptied its contents upon the pavement and sorted them out in some kind of order .