six o'clock
`` If Uncle James would only get better and go too , '' he said to himself as he dressed , `` how much pleasanter it would be ! '' But Uncle James came down to breakfast moaning at every step , and murmuring at having to leave his bed so soon . For he had been compelled to rise on account of two or three business matters with which he wished to charge his son ; and he told every one in turn that he was very much worse , and that he was sure Furzebrough did not agree with him ; but he ate , as Tom observed , a very hearty breakfast all the same . David had had his own , and had started off at six o'clock to fetch the fly , which arrived in good time , to take Sam off to meet the fast up-train , Tom thinking to himself that it would not have been much hardship to walk across the fields on such a glorious morning . `` Going to see your cousin off ? '' said Uncle Richard , just as breakfast was over . `` You would n't mind the walk back , Tom ? ''