six in the morning
The change from the roomy farmstead , with its wide horizons of moors and woods , to the narrow cottage in the sunless back street was a strange one for her . She missed , too , the farm work : the churning of the butter and the feeding of the calves and poultry . But youth was on her side and she soon learnt to adapt herself to her new life . Soon after six in the morning she would mount with Parfitt to the upper room and spin the wool , which he would then weave into cloth . The work was hard , and some of the processes of cleaning the wool were repulsive to her nature at first , but in time she accustomed herself to this as to so much else . It was easy for her gentle nature to win the hearts of the three children ; she quickly learnt the duties of a mother , nursed them in their childish ailments , and when the loom was still , joined with them in their games . Six months Tom Parfitt waited to see whether Learoyd would make any attempt to recover the stepdaughter whom he had wronged , and then , as the farmer made no move , he quietly married Mary Whittaker at the Primitive Methodist Chapel .