seven o'clock before
Bel earned twelve dollars in six days , and got her pay . On Saturday night she brought home four Chater 's crumpets , and a pint of oysters . She stewed the oysters in a porringer out of which everything came nicer than out of any other utensil . While they were stewing , she made a bit of butter up into a `` pat , '' and stamped it with the star in the middle of the pressed glass saltcellar ; she set the table near the fire , and laid it out in a specially dainty way ; then she toasted the muffins , and it was past seven o'clock before all was done . Aunt Blin sat by , and watched and smelled . She was in no hurry ; two senses at a time were enough to have filled . She had finished the paper , -- it was getting to be an old and much rehashed story , now , -- and had sent it down to Miss Smalley .