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When you have an appointment with the dentist at five o'clock in the afternoon the idea of the appointment is immanent in your mind from the first moment of your awakening . Conceive that an appointment with the dentist implies heavenly joy instead of infernal pain , and you will have a notion of the daily state of Mrs Blackshaw and Emmie -LRB- the nurse -RRB- with regard to the baby 's bath . Even at ten in the morning Emmie would be keeping an eye on the kitchen fire , lest the cook might let it out . And shortly after noon Mrs Blackshaw would be keeping an eye on the thermometer in the bedroom where the bath occurred . From four o'clock onwards the clocks in the house were spied on and overlooked like suspected persons ; but they were used to that , because the baby had his sterilized milk every two hours . I have at length allowed you to penetrate the secret of his sex . And so at five o'clock precisely the august and exciting ceremony began in the best bedroom .