five o'clock
They worked twice as hard at that imp 's doing as they would at honest work , you may be bound . Then they drove down to the parsonage with the load , and tried round till they found a window unfastened , and in they carried every single thing , into the elder 's study , and then loaded up with his rattletraps , and back to the Homestead . Working like beavers they were , every minute of the afternoon . By five o'clock they had their job done ; and then in goes Tom and asks dear old Grandmother Darracott , who could not leave her room , and thought every fox was a cosset lamb , did she think father and mother -LRB- they were at the meeting too , of course -RRB- would let him and Sol Candy go and take tea and spend the night at Plum-tree Farm , three miles off , where our old nurse lived . Grandmother said ` Yes , to be sure ! ' for she was always pleased when the children remembered Nursey ; so off those two Limbs went , and left their works behind them . `` Evening came , and Conference was over at last ; and here comes the squire home , stepping along proud and stately as ever , but mortal head-weary under the pride of his wig , for he was an old man , and grudged his age , never sparing himself .