five in the morning
`` But , if you will allow me to say so , I think your remedy would be worse than the disease . Your utmost ingenuity will fail to persuade me that the life of a farmer 's wife would suit you . '' `` I should like the simplicity of it , '' she maintained . `` And getting up at five in the morning to make the butter ? And having a hulking brute of a husband -- like Jeff Ironside -- tramping into your kitchen with his muddy boots and beastly clothes -LRB- which you would have to mend -RRB- just when you had got things into good order ? I can see you doing it ! '' Hugh Chesyl 's speech went into his easy , high-bred laugh .