eight o'clock
`` Poor little souls ! How late they are sleeping . They must have been tired last night . '' So said nurse at eight o'clock , when she came back into the nursery from a journey to the kitchen after the breakfast things , and found the children still fast asleep ; so fast that it looked as if they meant to go on sleeping till dinner-time . `` Milly ! '' she called softly , shaking her very gently , `` Milly , it 's breakfast-time , wake up ! '' Milly began to move about , and muttered something about `` whistles '' and `` hedges '' in her sleep .