six o'clock
In this spirit she came down into the little parlour . Mrs. Bolton was also up , -- had been up and about for some time previous . She was a woman who never gave way to temptations of ease . A nasty dark morning at six o'clock , with just light enough to enable her to dress without a candle , with no fire and no hot water , with her husband snoring while she went through her operations , was to her thinking the proper condition of things for this world . Not to be cold , not to be uncomfortable , not to strike her toes against the furniture because she could not quite see what she was about , would to her have been to be wicked . When her daughter came into the parlour , she had been about the house for more than an hour , and had had a conference both with the cook and with the gardener . The cook was of opinion that not a word should be said , or an unusual bolt drawn , or a thing removed till the Wednesday .