About three o'clock
I suppose , '' said the doctor , who had brought Tussie into the world and was as brutal as he was clever , besides being at that moment extremely angry , `` I suppose you want to lose him , eh ? '' How could she explain to him what she knew to be true , that the one person responsible for Tussie 's illness was Priscilla ? She therefore only stared , wide-eyed and speechless ; and indeed her heart was very nearly broken . About three o'clock that afternoon Priscilla saw quite clearly what she had dimly perceived in the morning , that if there was to be domestic peace in Creeper Cottage she must bestir herself . She did not like bestirring herself ; at least , not in such directions . She would go out and help the poor , talk to them , cheer them , nurse their babies even and stir their porridge , but she had not up to this point realized her own needs , and how urgent they could be and how importunate . It was hunger that cleared her vision .