four o'clock
`` I thank you , beautiful Madam Whitworth , for your offer of assistance , and I will avail myself of it at the first opportunity . Is it at your house that we can be alone ? '' I questioned with a daring smile that would serve both for a purpose of coquetry and also to ascertain if I would encounter in a call upon her that very disagreeable appearing gentleman , Mr. Jefferson Whitworth , who is the husband to his very beautiful wife . `` Come any afternoon at four o'clock and telephone me before you come so that I can get rid of anybody who happens to be around . And be sure to bring any work you have for me to help you with . That 's the only way I can excuse an ancient matron like myself for keeping you even for a few minutes away from the pinafores . '' And she looked into my eyes with a sigh for her antiquity .