eleven o'clock
Six weeks ago he noticed that you wanted strength -- tone is what he calls it . ` Georgina , ' he said to me , ` Charlotte wants tone . She is beginning to stoop in a really lamentable manner : we must make her take port or bark , or something of a strengthening kind . ' And then a day or two afterwards he decided on port , and gave me the key of the cellar -- which is a thing he rarely gives out of his own hands -- and told me the number of the bin from which I was to take the wine -- some old wine that he had laid by on purpose for some special occasion ; and no one is to have it but you , and you are to take a glass daily at eleven o'clock . Mr. Sheldon is most particular about the hour . The regularity of the thing is half the battle in these cases , he says ; and I am sure if you do not observe his wishes and mine , Charlotte , it will be really ungrateful of you . '' `` But , dear mamma , I do observe Mr. -- papa 's wishes .