about four o'clock in the afternoon
She argued , that there could be no virtue , where there was deceit , which she considered as the hot-bed from which every vice would spring out spontaneously ; that truth was the basis of all that was good and noble , and that every other branch of education was , comparatively speaking , of no importance , and , without truth , of no value . She was right . My brother and I were both sent to day-schools . The maid Catherine always took me to school after breakfast , and came to fetch me home about four o'clock in the afternoon . Those were happy times . With what joy I used to return to the palace , bounding into my grandmother 's apartment on the ground floor , sometimes to frighten her , leaping in at the window and dropping at her feet , the old lady scolding and laughing at the same time . My grandmother was , as I observed , religious , but she was not a devotee .