four o'clock
I 'm greatly interested . They remind me more and more of what Kloster says they are , clever children . They have the unmoral quality of children . I listen -- they treat me as if I were the audience , and they address themselves in a bunch to my corner -- and I put in one of my words now and then , generally with an unfortunate effect , for they talk even louder after that , and then presently the men get up and put their heels together and make a stiff inclusive bow and disappear , and Frau Berg folds up her napkin and brushes the crumbs out of her creases and says , '' _ Ja , ja _ , '' with a sigh , as a sort of final benediction on the departed conversation , and then rises slowly and locks up the sugar , and then treads heavily away down the passage and has a brief skirmish in the kitchen with Wanda , who daily tries to pretend there had n't been any pudding left over , and then treads heavily back again to her bedroom , and shuts herself in till four o'clock for her _ Mittagsruhe _ ; and the other boarders drift away one by one , and I run out for a walk to get unstiffened after having practised all the morning , and as I walk I think over what they 've been saying , and try to see things from their angle , and simply ca n't . On Tuesdays and Fridays I have my lesson , and tell Kloster about them . He says they 're entirely typical of the great bulk of the nation . '' _ Wir Deutschen _ , '' he says , and laughs , `` are the easiest people in the world to govern , because we are obedient and inflammable .