six o'clock
Do you remember that scene , Elinor , at Geneva ? '' `` Do n't I ! '' laughed Elinor , as they sauntered off . Well , by the time that six o'clock came , there was n't so much as a scrap of a letter left in Jasper 's post office , but , instead , a box crammed full of silver pieces and banknotes . And Miss Mary Taylor and Mr. Hamilton Dyce , and some other young ladies and gentlemen whom they drilled into the service , shut themselves up in the library and wrote as fast as ever they could make their pens fly over the paper , till little white piles appeared on the table . And Percy and Joel and Van and the other boys would rush in for these same piles to put them in the post office , to earn more money , to go into the big box . So back and forth ran these letter carriers , until even Miss Mary threw down her pen .