six o'clock
They gave her a sort of innocent attention and the best smiles many of them had smiled for long ; there were few tears in Clara , but people smiled misty-eyed at her . Very occasionally Amory stayed for little half-hours after the rest of the court had gone , and they would have bread and jam and tea late in the afternoon or `` maple-sugar lunches , '' as she called them , at night . `` You _ are _ remarkable , are n't you ! '' Amory was becoming trite from where he perched in the centre of the dining-room table one six o'clock . `` Not a bit , '' she answered . She was searching out napkins in the sideboard . `` I 'm really most humdrum and commonplace .