four o’clock
I wondered why Fuchs had not stuck to cabinet-work , he settled down to it with such ease and content . He handled the tools as if he liked the feel of them ; and when he planed , his hands went back and forth over the boards in an eager , beneficent way as if he were blessing them . He broke out now and then into German hymns , as if this occupation brought back old times to him . At four o'clock Mr. Bushy , the postmaster , with another neighbour who lived east of us , stopped in to get warm . They were on their way to the Shimerdas ' . The news of what had happened over there had somehow got abroad through the snow-blocked country . Grandmother gave the visitors sugar-cakes and hot coffee .