eleven o’clock
`` You have been getting better these three months , poor man , and you need not boast . '' `` Well , at least I can show something for it , '' said Fred ; `` they allow me a lark 's diet instead of a wren 's , I can hold up my head like other people now , and I actually made my own legs and the table 's carry me to the window yesterday , which is what I call getting on . But I do not think it is so with mamma . A fortnight ago she used to be up by ten or eleven o'clock ; now I do n't believe she ever is till one . '' `` It has been close , damp weather , '' said Henrietta , surprised at the accurate remembrance , which she could not confute . `` She misses the cold bracing wind . '' `` I do n't like it , '' said Fred , growing silent , and after a short interval beginning again more earnestly , `` Henrietta , neither you nor any one else are keeping anything from me , I trust ? ''