nine o'clock
They were to keep a select academy for young ladies , in which they would correct all those glaring errors of governess and mother under which they themselves had groaned . `` I can bear it better when I feel it is for a good end . Our girls shall never suffer as I am suffering ! '' said Chrissie , with an air of martyrdom , when she was ordered to bed at nine o'clock , and remorselessly roused from slumber at seven a.m. `` If grown-ups were sensible , they would allow a child to follow its own instinct . Nature must surely know better than mothers ; and my nature tells me to sit up at nights and have breakfast in bed . To be sent off as if one were a child in arms is really too horribly trying ! '' `` And when Mr Barr was there too !