one o'clock
while Philip searched for flat stones to play ducks and drakes . Then they walked slowly back . They looked into the post office to get the right time , nodded to Mrs. Wigram the doctor 's wife , who sat at her window sewing , and so got home . Dinner was at one o'clock ; and on Monday , Tuesday , and Wednesday it consisted of beef , roast , hashed , and minced , and on Thursday , Friday , and Saturday of mutton . On Sunday they ate one of their own chickens . In the afternoon Philip did his lessons , He was taught Latin and mathematics by his uncle who knew neither , and French and the piano by his aunt . Of French she was ignorant , but she knew the piano well enough to accompany the old-fashioned songs she had sung for thirty years .