about four o'clock
He really was , I suppose , too little to keep the thought of our trouble long in his mind , even though he had cried so dreadfully the day before , and I think the sight of his forgetting , as it were , made me all the sadder . But when the toys were all arranged in their places , and the long day was over at last , even Racey grew dull , and unlike himself . It had been a very long day -- we had not been out of our own rooms at all , except just for those few minutes in the morning , to see Uncle Geoff . He ran up to see us again in the evening -- about four o'clock , our tea-time , that is to say -- and said he was sorry the weather was so bad , he hoped it would be better to-morrow , but even as he was speaking to us the man-servant came up to say he was wanted again , and he had to run off . And I 'm sure all the afternoon the bell had never left off ringing , and there were lots and lots of carriages came to the door , with ladies and gentlemen and even children , to see him . If we could have watched the people getting out and in of the carriages it would have been fun , but from the day nursery window we could n't see them well , for standing up on the window-sill was too high , and standing on a chair was too low . It was n't till some time after that , that we found out we could see them beautifully from the bedroom window , by putting a buffet in an old rocking-chair that always stood there .