six o'clock
Let 's show them what skating is -- no little cutting of geometrical spider-webs in a forty-foot square ! '' They drew in with swift , graceful strokes , threaded their course through the crowd of skaters , and were soon on their way home . Captain Rayburn and Celia passed them , called back that it was a great day for invalids and children , and reached home just in time for the doctor to carry Celia into the little brick house . Charlotte ran to summon her three brothers , for it was after six o'clock . Never had an oyster stew such enthusiastic praise . Not an appetite was lacking , not a spoon flagged . Mrs. Fields , moved to lavish hospitality , in which she was upheld by the doctor , produced a chicken pie , which had been originally intended for his dinner alone , and which she had at first designed , when she proposed the oysters , to keep over until the morrow .