six o'clock
But they may well have more in them than they know how to make us understand , for we ca n't say half what we feel , with all our words . '' Seth came down now , and was pleased to find Adam talking with Dinah ; he wanted Adam to know how much better she was than all other women . But after a few words of greeting , Adam drew him into the workshop to consult about the coffin , and Dinah went on with her cleaning . By six o'clock they were all at breakfast with Lisbeth in a kitchen as clean as she could have made it herself . The window and door were open , and the morning air brought with it a mingled scent of southernwood , thyme , and sweet-briar from the patch of garden by the side of the cottage . Dinah did not sit down at first , but moved about , serving the others with the warm porridge and the toasted oat-cake , which she had got ready in the usual way , for she had asked Seth to tell her just what his mother gave them for breakfast . Lisbeth had been unusually silent since she came downstairs , apparently requiring some time to adjust her ideas to a state of things in which she came down like a lady to find all the work done , and sat still to be waited on .