nine in the
morning
Then she read a little . Then she went into the kitchen and superintended the making of a pudding after a new recipe which some one had given to her . Then she dressed for dinner . But the time is very long from nine in the morning till six at night , when it is rainy without and gloomy within . It wanted full an hour of the usual time for her father 's return when she was quite ready to receive him . She wandered into the dining-room . There were no signs of the dinner-table being laid .