Six o'clock to five
Some of them tell me stories about his pluck out hunting as a little chap , and though he had been such a short time out in France he had written to two or three of them about their sons in the Brookshires . He had a heavenly disposition -- oh , I wish I had ! ` At the present moment I am in knee-breeches , gaiters , and tunic , and I have just come in . Six o'clock to five , please sir , with half-an-hour for breakfast and an hour for dinner -LRB- I eat it out of a red handkerchief under a hedge -RRB- . It was wet and nasty , and I am pretty tired . But one does not want to stop -- because when one stops one begins to think . And my thoughts , except for that shining centre where you are , are so dark and full of sorrow .