five o'clock
But she found , what she had feared , that her strength had departed , and she was fatigued instead of invigorated , as of yore . She did not regard this loss in a resigned spirit . Resignation was certainly not her strong point . The vicar 's wife and the doctor 's wife and the rest of the neighbours compared their woes and weariness over five o'clock tea , and these appeared so many and so severe that Hadria felt half ashamed to count hers at all . Yet why lower the altars of the sane goddess because her shrine was deserted ? Health was health , though all the women of England were confirmed invalids . And with nothing less ought reasonable creatures to be satisfied .