eight o’clock in the morning
We think fast , and yet we talk as deliberately as if we were speaking a foreign language . They toss off their sentences with an air of easy familiarity with the tongue , and yet they misunderstand two-thirds of what people say to them . Perhaps , after all , it is only _ our _ thoughts they think slowly ; they think their own often to a lively tune enough . Mr. Antrobus arrived here at eight o'clock in the morning ; I do n't know how he managed it ; it appears to be his favourite hour ; wherever we have heard of him he has come in with the dawn . In England he would arrive at 5.30 p.m. . He asks innumerable questions , but they are easy to answer , for he has a sweet credulity . He made me rather ashamed ; he is a better American than so many of us ; he takes us more seriously than we take ourselves .