about four o'clock in the afternoon
You 're so clever that I would n't be surprised if it tripped you , some day , and landed you on your pug nose . '' Which proved that Nan was _ not _ clever , for Josie 's indulgent smile masked the thought : `` She knows all and is here to defend her father . I must look out for Nan , for she has a notion I 'm still on the track of Hezekiah Cragg . '' Old Swallowtail came home at about four o'clock in the afternoon . The day was hot , yet the old man seemed neither heated nor wearied . Without a word to his daughter or Ingua he drew a chair to the little shady porch and sat down in their company . Nan was mending her child 's old frock ; Ingua sat thinking .