eight o'clock in the
morning
They started a little , hearing a step beside them . It was old Phelan . `` I think , '' he said , `` it is time to be getting home . '' He told the doctor he was due in the bar-room at eight o'clock in the morning ; the bar-room was in a slum in the Bowery ; and he had only been able to keep himself in health by getting up at five o'clock and going for long walks in the Central Park . `` A sea voyage is what you want , '' said the doctor . `` Why not go to Ireland for two or three months ? You will come back a new man . ''