eight o’clock
As she walked past the smoking flames the children noticed that large tears were welling from her eyes and trickling down her faded cheek . The Doctor got up at dawn , as was his wont , and as soon as he was dressed he sat down at his desk in his library overlooking the sea , and immersed himself in the studies which were the lodestar of his existence . His hours were mapped out with rigid regularity like those of a school-boy , and his methodical life worked as though by clockwork . He rose at dawn and read without interruption until eight o'clock . He then partook of some light food -LRB- he was a strict vegetarian -RRB- , after which he walked in the garden of his house , overlooking the Bay of Naples , until ten . From ten to twelve he received sick people , peasants from the village , or any visitors that needed his advice or his company . At twelve he ate a frugal meal .