three o'clock
For one thing , I thought it wicked ; and then I was so afraid of spending a penny -- I had so often known what it was to be in want of a copper to buy food . So I lived quite alone ; sat in my room every evening and read books . You could hardly believe what a number of books I read in that year . Sometimes I did n't go to bed till two or three o'clock . '' `` What sort of books ? '' `` I got them from the Free Library -- books of all kinds ; not only novels . I 've never been particularly fond of novels ; they always made me feel my own lot all the harder .