hour from eight to twelve
`` You ca n't be late or early in this magic palace . Whenever you ` arrive ' you will find things -- ` things ' in the most comprehensive sense -- ready for you . Breakfast at Brae Wood is the most moveable of feasts . I 've proved that , for I 'm a late bird myself ; and to my joy I have learned that this is the only house with which I am acquainted that you can get red-hot bacon and kidneys at any hour from eight to twelve ; that lunch runs plenteously from one to three , and that you can get tea and toast -- my great and only weakness , Miss Falconer -- whenever you like to ring for it . You will find Lady Clansford presiding at the breakfast-table : I believe she has been sitting there -- amiable martyr as she is -- since the early dawn . '' She smiled at him with languid approval , as if he were some paid jester , and went into the breakfast-room . There were others there beside Lady Clansford -- most of them the young people -- it is , alas !