six o'clock
But a week later Mabel arrives accompanied by Teddy and the baby ; George and Paul , whom Lippa has also begged to come , turn up , and the lovely days that follow , when the sun creeps into their rooms in the early morning enticing them out , where the hedges are covered with sweet smelling honey-suckle and the fields are carpeted with brilliant red poppies , and a walk will take them to the ` Garden of Sleep , ' where among the tombstones and long grass they can watch the sea sparkling in a golden haze , and listen to the waves as they break on the yellow sands ; where the birds are ever trilling forth their songs without words ; those days for ever are stored in the minds of some of them as the loveliest summer man could wish for . ` Love pardons the unpardonable past . ' -- CHRISTINA ROSSETTI . It is six o'clock . The tea things have been taken away , and the occupants of the little drawing-room are all apparently lazily enjoying themselves . Mabel has the baby on her knee , her husband is dozing in an armchair , Jimmy is sitting half-in half-out of the window , Paul is reading , and Philippa is lying on the sofa . ` Lippa , ' says Dalrymple , ` sing us something . '