five o'clock
When Mistress Forrester came in , on her way to the dairy , to see how it fared with Mary , she found her , to her surprise , dressed , while Goody Pearse was snoring peacefully on the pallet bed , where Ambrose had slept near his mother . ` Dear heart ! Mary Gifford , what do you mean by getting up like this ? I thought , forsooth , you were so sick you had need of a nurse , to take a few more shillings out of my pocket , and here you are at five o'clock , up and spry . Well-a-day , I never did come to the bottom of you . Deep waters , they say , make no noise . ' Mary had braced herself to bear anything and everything , and was strangely unmoved by her stepmother 's innuendoes , of which she took no notice , and only said , in a gentle voice , -- ` Is Ned astir yet ? '