nine in the morning
He came like a little angel of delight , in one way ; the real , heart way ; but another , -- the practical way of day 's doing and ordering , -- he came like a little Hun , overrunning and devastating everything . While Rosamond had been up-stairs , and Mrs. Waters had been nursing her , and Miss Arabel coming in and out to see that all was straight below , it had been lovely ; it was the peace of heaven . But when Mrs. Waters -- who was one of those born nurses whom everybody who has any sort of claim sends for in all emergency of sickness -- had to pack up her valise and go to Portland , where her niece 's son was taken with rheumatic fever , and her niece had another bleeding at the lungs ; when the days grew short , and the nights long , and the baby _ would _ not settle his relations with the solar system , but having begun his earthly career in the night-time , kept a dead reckoning accordingly , and continued to make the midnight hours his hours of demand and enterprise , -- the nice little systematic calculations by which the household had been regulated fell into hopeless uncertainties . Dorris had so many music scholars now , that she was obliged to leave home at nine in the morning ; and at night she was very tired . It was indispensable for her and for Kenneth that dinner should be punctual . Rosamond could not let Miss Arabel 's labors of love grow into matter-of-course service . And then there were all the sewing and mending to do ; which had not been anything to think of when there had been plenty of time ; but which , now that the baby devoured all the minutes , and made a houseful of work beside , began to grow threatening with inevitable procrastinations .