about four o'clock
`` No , I -- the fact is , I 've sold my apparatus ; a firm of booksellers has bought the rights of it . '' `` And are n't you going to bind books any more ? '' exclaimed the little dressmaker , a shade of disappointment in her manner . `` I thought you always did about four o'clock . I used to hear you when I was making tea . '' It hardly seemed possible to Miss Baker that she was actually talking to Old Grannis , that the two were really chatting together , face to face , and without the dreadful embarrassment that used to overwhelm them both when they met on the stairs . She had often dreamed of this , but had always put it off to some far-distant day .