three o'clock
A quarter of an hour later Dr. Green , with Mr. Thompson by his side , drove off through the tempest toward Varley . The next morning , as Ned was at breakfast , the doctor was announced . `` What a pestilently early hour you breakfast at , Ned ! I was not in bed till three o'clock , and I scarcely seemed to have been asleep an hour when I was obliged to get up to be in time to catch you before you were off . '' `` That is hard on you indeed , doctor , '' Ned said , smiling ; `` but why this haste ? Have you got some patient for whom you want my help ? You need not have got up so early for that , you know .