nine o'clock
`` Yes . I 'm extra early , on purpose . '' So in the grey dawn , Marie went about her business . She packed suit-case and kit-bag and hat-box , and placed the labels ready for Osborn to write ; she dressed George and bade him help the three-year-old to dress ; she brushed the rooms and lighted the fires ; made the morning bottle for the baby ; saw that boiling hot shaving water was ready for Osborn ; gave the children their breakfast ; cooked an unusually lavish one for the traveller ; and had accomplished all these things by the time he was dressed and ready at nine o'clock . He glowed with health and cheer . The creases in his brow were smoothed out ; his smile was ready ; his voice had its old boyish ring . Because he was going away from them the metamorphosis occurred which rived the wife 's heart afresh .