nine o'clock
Only the morning star still gleaming above saw . And they were twin sisters . Four days flew on velvet wings before the first cloud threw its shadow across her life . Jim always slept until nine o'clock , and refused with dogged good-natured indifference to stir when she had asked him to get the wood for breakfast . It was nothing , of course , to walk a hundred yards to the beach and pick up the wood , and she did it . The hurt that stung was the feeling that he was growing indifferent . She felt for the first time an impulse to box his lazy jaws as he yawned and turned over for the dozenth time without rising .