three o'clock
`` And stay , Miss Angell may send me up some more patterns to choose from ; that is , if she has had any new ones since I was there last week , and I presume that she has . '' Polly could only utter , `` Yes , Miss Rhys , '' so very faintly it could scarcely be heard . Dear me ! and it was three o'clock already , and all that candy to be made over again ! She crept off on very dismal feet , till she reflected it would n't help matters any to lose heart , and so she set forward at a brisk pace again . Miss Rhys pushed down the window screen and set to work with a complacent smile at the prospect of having her errand performed so nicely . `` That 's the good of having young people around , '' she said ; `` it 's so convenient at times to get one 's errands done . ''