eight o'clock
`` Our days are very similar here , and I find them very agreeable . Edward thinks the same , he assures me , though I feel it may arise in his case from a want of breadth of view and lack of experience to argue from . `` In the summer months we get up early , and generally bathe in the stream , where I have contrived to get one of the pools sufficiently enlarged ; as the weather gets colder I am compelled by my doctor to relinquish this . Then we read and write till breakfast , which we have at eight o'clock . In winter this is the first event of the day ; in the morning we work for an hour or two and then go out , returning to lunch ; after which we sun ourselves till five o'clock , or drive ; and then , after tea , work again for three hours : the day thus concludes . `` I certainly do n't coddle my boy , and I do n't think I pet him , for I have the deepest horror of that practice : nothing is so weakening for both parties ; it develops sentimentalism , and all mawkishness I abhor ! -- though I am what you would call ridiculously fond of him .