about half past five
`` No , crying wo n't do you any good -- eat your rice and stop whining . '' `` I think you ought to know how things go when I 'm not here , Hugh , '' began Aunt Trudy while Shirley ate her rice sulkily . `` I was so upset this morning that I thought I should fly if I stayed in the house , so I went up to the city and shopped . I came in about half past five and not one bed was made ! The children 's clothes lay just where they had flung them last night . That 's a nice way , is n't it ? Apparently I can not leave home for a few hours without finding everything shirked on my return . ''