five in the morning
All summer long in the mountains , everyone by tacit consent had made way for her , had deferred to her grief in the little things that make up the everyday life in a home . And to this precedent once established Edith now clung unawares . Her new day gave her small time to think . It began at five in the morning , when Roger was awakened by the gleeful cries of the two wee boys who slept with their mother in the next room , the room which had been Deborah 's . And Edith was busy from that time on . First came the washing and dressing and breakfast , which was a merry , boisterous meal . Then the baby was taken out to his carriage on the porch at the back of the house .