three o’clock
Take a day for sample . Trevanion gets up at eight o'clock , and in all weathers rides an hour before breakfast ; at nine he takes that meal in his wife 's dressing-room ; at half-past nine he comes into his study . By that time he expects to find done by his secretary the work I am about to describe . On coming home , -- or rather before going to bed , which is usually after three o'clock , -- it is Mr. Trevanion 's habit to leave on the table of the said study a list of directions for the secretary . The following , which I take at random from many I have preserved , may show their multifarious nature : -- 1 . Look out in the Reports -LRB- Committee , House of Lords -RRB- for the last seven years all that is said about the growth of flax ; mark the passages for me . 2 .