six a.m.
She had given Jane a week 's notice before the clock struck ten . It was from Mr. Arlington that the Professor heard the news . Mr. Arlington could not stop an instant , dinner being at twelve sharp and it wanting but ten minutes to ; but seems to have yielded to temptation . The breakfast hour at the Manor Farm was now six a.m. , had been so since Thursday ; the whole family fully dressed and Mrs. Arlington presiding . If the Professor did not believe it he could come round any morning and see for himself . The Professor appears to have taken Mr. Arlington 's word for it . By six-thirty everybody at their job and Mrs. Arlington at hers , consisting chiefly of seeing to it for the rest of the day that everybody was .