five o'clock
Regardless of the draughts , I sprang on to the shelf close under the window . And there was such a dish of cream ! The saucers in which one got it at breakfast did not hold a twentieth part of what this brimming pan contained . As to the five o'clock china , in which visitors give you a tepid teaspoonful , with bits of old tea-leaves in it -- I grinned at the thought as I drew in tongueful after tongueful of the thick yellow cream . At this moment I heard my young mistress 's voice in the distant passages . `` Toots , Toots ! '' said she .