about four o'clock
There are accounts to be made up . And Robinson and others will be telegraphing to Knoleworth and London . I must attend to all that , because dad gets flustered if several messages are handed in at the same time . '' `` Come and have tea , then , about four o'clock . The ravens will have fled by then . '' `` The ravens ? '' `` The police , you dear child , and the reporters , and the photographers -- the flock of weird fowl which gathers from all points of the compass when the press gets hold of what is called ` a first-rate story , ' By midday I shall be in the thick of it .