two o'clock
Sudden excitement was bad for her according to Hendry , who got his medical knowledge second-hand from persons under treatment , but with Jamie 's appearance on the threshold Jess 's health began to improve . This time he kept to the appointed day , and the house was turned upside down in his honour . Such a polish did Leeby put on the flagons which hung on the kitchen wall , that , passing between them and the window , I thought once I had been struck by lightning . On the morning of the day that was to bring him , Leeby was up at two o'clock , and eight hours before he could possibly arrive Jess had a night-shirt warming for him at the fire . I was no longer anybody , except as a person who could give Jamie advice . Jess told me what I was to say . The only thing he and his mother quarrelled about was the underclothing she would swaddle him in , and Jess asked me to back her up in her entreaties .