seven o'clock
`` Father and I never liked to take it before nine o'clock , '' she said , `` but it made the landlady so cross that when we owed for board we usually tried to get down by half past eight . '' Thinkright smiled at this . `` Here you can go to bed earlier , '' he returned . `` We will try breakfast at seven o'clock . '' Sylvia looked somewhat aghast , and it was not for some time that she discovered what a concession had been made in her favor . One morning , a fortnight after Judge Trent 's visit , she came out on the stone step at the kitchen door to scent the morning , while Mrs. Lem scoured the cooking dishes . Cap'n Lem came along .