four o'clock
She 'd never had any experience with children , either , for we was the youngest in our family ; and it wa 'n' t long before we come near being the oldest , too , for mother buried seven of us before she went herself . Anyway , I never saw nobody else look as she done when she held my baby . I do n't mean nothing blasphemious when I say ' t was for all the world like your photograph of Mary , the mother of Jesus . `` The nights come in early , so it was ` most dark at four o'clock . The little chamber was so peaceful ! I could hear Jot rattling the milk-pails , but I 'd draw a deep breath o ' comfort , for I knew the milk would be strained and set away without my stepping foot to the floor . Lovey used to set by the fire , with a tall candle on the light-stand behind her , and a little white knit cape over her shoulders .