five o'clock
For Jadwin was a fisherman unregenerate . Laura , though an early riser when in the city , was apt to sleep late in the country , and never omitted a two-hours ' nap in the heat of the afternoon . Her husband improved these occasions when he was deprived of her society , to indulge in his pastime . Never a morning so forbidding that his lines were not in the water by five o'clock ; never a sun so scorching that he was not coaxing a `` strike '' in the stumps and reeds in the shade under the shores . It was the one pleasure he could not share with his wife . Laura was unable to bear the monotony of the slow-moving boat , the hours spent without results , the enforced idleness , the cramped positions . Only occasionally could Jadwin prevail upon her to accompany him .