nine o'clock
Come , be a brave girl , and jump up quickly . '' Thus adjured , the little girl jumped out of bed -- but how cold and dark it was ! although Eric had left the lamp in the hall outside . One of Katie 's failings -- not an uncommon one among girls and boys -- was a great dislike to getting up early in the morning , and her mother had always humored her in the matter , getting up herself and giving the boys their breakfast early , and then waking her little girl just in time to eat her own and get to school at nine o'clock . Even then it was sometimes a difficult task . The young work-woman had not included the necessity of getting up so very early in the morning as one of the many anticipated delights of her new position . This first taste of it seemed , on the contrary , quite a hardship .