three in the morning
At the end of the headland where the plough turned , Peter always wanted to stop and talk about something ; but James said they would have to get on with the work , and Peter walked after the plough , straining after it for three hours , and then he said : `` James , let me drive the horse . I can do no more . '' `` You wo n't feel it so much when you are accustomed to it , '' said James . Anything seemed to him better than a day 's ploughing : even getting up at three in the morning to go to a fair . He went to bed early , as he used to , and they talked of him over the fire , as they used to . But however much they talked , they never seemed to find what they were seeking -- his vocation -- until one evening an idea suddenly rose out of their talk . `` A good wife is the only thing for Peter , '' said Pat .