two o'clock
She again patiently explained that she was sorry The Exchange had let Madame misunderstand . `` I am only a needlewoman for hand work , '' she reiterated . `` I know only embroidery and mending and knitting and the beading of purses -- as they should have informed you -- '' The crisis was tided over by the frowsy maid being summoned to press the frock while Felice corralled various hooks and eyes , mended a rip in a stocking heel , helped to fasten the pressed frock around a stiffly corseted person , breathed a patient `` yes '' to numerous instructions about the children 's lunch . She sighed with relief when two o'clock heard the door bang after a second grand exit when a caricatured edition of the mistress passed out in the form of `` Sadie 's Thursday out . '' Not that things were exactly placid after those two disrupting influences had fled to their pleasures . The rain dripped more steadily , the pile of garments heaped upon the sewing machine never seemed to grow less . The children ate the lunches that Felicia found in the half tidied kitchen .