I would like to know the meaning of "it' and "that". (So it was that at exactly six o'clock ..)
Alice Jackson's husband, Henry, was a man of habit. So it was that at exactly six o'clock in the evening she was in the kitchen getting a beer for him out of the fridge and watching him walk up the path.
Top answer
she was in the kitchen
— Mister Micawber
she was in the kitchen
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