four o'clock
`` Do as I say , daughter , and start at once to the baker 's for the cake . Stop on the way back and buy a bag of nice fruit . '' Gracie had to obey , but did it reluctantly . She feared she would not be ready to go when four o'clock arrived , for there was so much to be done in preparation . She hurried to the baker 's and got the cake ; stopped on the way back home and bought a bag of fruit . But she saw by the town clock that it wanted only forty-five minutes till time to start on their automobile outing . For a moment she felt very much out of sorts over the fact that she had been obliged to go after the cake and fruit , but the longer she thought of it the clearer became her own fault .