six o'clock in the morning
` Marie will get us a cup of coffee and a sausage . Marie is always up by that time . ' Marie smiled , and promised that they should not be compelled to start upon their walk with empty stomachs from any fault of hers . If a hot breakfast at six o'clock in the morning could put her cousin into a good humour , it certainly should not be wanting . In two hours after supper George was with his father . Michel was so full of happiness and so confidential that the son found it very difficult to keep silence about his own sorrow . Had it not been that with a half obedience to his wife 's hints Michel said little about Adrian , there must have been an explosion .