about ten in the morning
He wore a gray bicycle cap on the back of his head , and his hair was straw-colored and curly , and his sunburned face looked like one that smiled a good deal when he was not preaching the doctrine of everlasting punishment to delivery-wagon horses . He slung imported A1 fancy groceries about as though they were only the stuff he delivered at boarding-houses ; and when he picked up his whip , your mind instantly recalled Mr. Tackett and his air with the buttonless foils . Tradesmen delivered their goods at a side gate at the rear of the house . The grocer 's wagon came about ten in the morning . For three days Celia watched the driver when he came , finding something new each time to admire in the lofty and almost contemptuous way he had of tossing around the choicest gifts of Pomona , Ceres , and the canning factories . Then she consulted Annette . To be explicit , Annette McCorkle , the second housemaid who deserves a paragraph herself .