four o'clock
At eleven I was dressing and posing Miss Lizzie Huart for the princess . At twelve I was picturing in one of my bed rooms a child who served finely for Little Sister , and an hour later the same child in a cemetery three miles in the country where I used mounted butterflies from my cases , and potted plants carried from my conservatory , for a graveyard scene . The time was early November , but God granted sunshine that day , and short focus blurred the background . At four o'clock I was at the schoolhouse , and in the best-lighted room with five or six models , I was working on the spelling bee scenes . By six I was in the darkroom developing and drying these plates , every one of which was good enough to use . I did my best work with printing-out paper , but I was compelled to use a developing paper in this extremity , because it could be worked with much more speed , dried a little between blotters , and mounted . At three o'clock in the morning I was typing the quotations for the pictures , at four the parcel stood in the hall for the six o'clock train , and I realized that I wanted a drink , food , and sleep , for I had not stopped a second for anything from the time of reading Mr. Maxwell 's letter until his order was ready to mail .