five o'clock
Nurse woke them up at five o'clock in the morning -- fancy waking up as early as that ! -- and they slipped on their little blue bathing gowns , and their sand shoes that mother had bought them in Cromer the year before , and then nurse wrapped them up in shawls , and she and they and father went down and opened the front door while everybody else in the house was asleep , and slipped out . What a quiet strange world it seemed , the grass and the flowers dripping with dew , and overhead such a blue sky with white clouds sailing slowly about in it . `` Why do n't we always get up at five o'clock , father ? '' asked Olly , as he and Milly skipped along -- such an odd little pair of figures -- beside Mr. Norton . `` Is n't it nice and funny ? '' `` Very , '' said Mr. Norton .