eight o'clock
It 's a long time since you wrote to her . '' So Comfort sat down and wrote laboriously a letter to her Aunt Comfort , and thanked her anew , as she always did , for her gold ring and the gold dollar . `` I wish to express my thanks again for the beautiful and valuable gifts which you presented me for my name , '' wrote Comfort , in the little stilted style of the day . After the letter was written it was eight o'clock , and Comfort 's mother said she had better go to bed . `` You look tired out , '' said she ; `` I guess you 'll have to go to bed early if you 're going to school . '' `` Ca n't I stay home to-morrow , mother ? '' pleaded Comfort , with sudden hope .