five o'clock in the morning
`` I have come all the way up-stairs to tell you that you must be very good indeed to-day , and not give any trouble , for your nurse , Pierson , has had to go away . A friend from her home came to fetch her late last night , because her mother was dying . So she left at once , to catch the first train this morning . Of course I could n't have had the house disturbed at four or five o'clock in the morning and -- '' `` But she 'll come back again -- she 'll come back again in a few days , wo n't she ? '' said Tom , in his anxiety forgetting where he was , and popping up his round head from under the clothes . Mrs. Partridge hesitated . `` I ca n't say -- '' she was beginning when she suddenly perceived that Tom was not in his own quarters .