five o'clock
`` Ca n't you tell it to me now ? '' `` I should say not ! '' said father importantly , `` it 's a secret ! You 'll have to wait till five o'clock ! '' And he hurried off to his work leaving Mary Jane to a day of wondering what might be coming -- a pleasant sort of wondering , for father 's secrets were always jolly ones . Mary Jane thought that five o'clock would never come -- never ! She looked at the clock and _ looked _ at the clock and she asked mother and Alice to tell her the time so as to be sure she herself was n't mistaken in what the clock said .