four
o'clock in the afternoon
`` You did n't think of that , did you , Mummy ? I thought of it , '' said Nicky . Once he ran away over the West Heath , and got into the Leg of Mutton Pond , and would have been drowned if a total stranger had n't gone in after him and pulled him out . That time Nicky was sent to bed at four o'clock in the afternoon . At seven , when his mother came to tuck him up and say Good-night , she found him sitting up , smiling and ready . `` Mummy , '' he said , `` I think I ought to tell you . It is n't a bit of good sending me to bed . ''