four o'clock
S. McB . July 22 . Dear Judy : Please listen to this ! At four o'clock I took Sadie Kate to the doctor 's house to look at those cats . But Freddy Howland just twenty minutes before had fallen downstairs , so the doctor was at the Howland house occupying himself with Freddy 's collarbone . He had left word for us to sit down and wait , that he would be back shortly . Mrs. McGurk ushered us into the library ; and then , not to leave us alone , came in herself on a pretense of polishing the brass .