seven o'clock
Seven o'clock had seemed to her somewhat early to get up . But they had been up long before . She had heard of nuns who got up at four in the morning to say the Office . She did not know what time these nuns got up , but she felt that she was not capable of much greater sacrifice than six or seven o'clock . These nuns lived on a little coarse food , and spent the day in prayer . She thought of their aching knees in the long vigils of their adorations . She understood that the inward happiness their life gives them compensates them for all their privations .