six in the morning
`` Well , but -- '' `` My dear Jack , I have reasons for wishing Tristram back . You need n't ask what they are , because I sha n't tell you ; but they 're at least as intelligible as all the reasons you can find in that volume . '' He caught it out of his friend 's hand , and read : '' _ June 12th . -- T. to-day refused his biscuit and milk at six in the morning , but took it an hour later . Peevish all night ; in part -LRB- I think -RRB- because not yet recovered of his weaning , and also because his teeth -LRB- second pair on lower jaw -RRB- are troubling him . Query : If the biscuit should be boiled in the milk , or milk merely poured over the biscuit _ -- '' Here he glanced up , and seeing the anguish on the hunchback 's face , handed back the book . `` I beg your pardon , Jack .