six o'clock
It met with the approval of such of my relatives as were consulted -- my great-grandmother especially -- and it certainly met with mine . Eleanor and I were very anxious to show that idleness was not our object in avoiding Bush House . The one of my diaries that escaped burning has , on the fly-leaf , one of the many `` lesson plans '' we made for ourselves . We used to get up at six o'clock , and work before breakfast . Certain morning headaches , to which at this time I became subject , led to a serious difference of opinion between me and Mrs. Arkwright ; she forbidding me to get up , and I holding myself to be much aggrieved , and imputing the headaches to anything rather than what Keziah briefly termed `` book-larning upon an empty stomach . '' The matter was compromised , thanks to Keziah , by that good creature 's offering to bring me new milk and bread-and-butter every morning before I began to work . She really brought it before I dressed , and my headaches vanished .