six o'clock in the morning
Mr. Checkynshaw appeared to be flanking him . Leo still slept at the house in Phillimore Court , though he took his meals in Gridley Street . It was necessary for him to go two or three times a day to his shop to look after his stock of mice , rabbits , pigeons , and guinea pigs , in which he still carried on a tolerably lucrative commerce in supplying his old friends and customers . Every moment of his time was occupied from six o'clock in the morning until ten o'clock at night . He did everything `` upon honor , '' and he carried this rule into his lessons as well as his mercantile speculations . What he learned he really learned , and never left the subject till he had fully mastered it . Though he had been absent from school over two months , he stood so well in his class , that , with the severe exertion he made , he was able to regain the position he lost .