ten o'clock in the morning
Indeed , the second Rodney fell in love with her almost as promptly as his father had done before him . But little Portia was n't very far behind . Two days sufficed for the conquest of the pair of them . The really disquieting discovery awaited the time when the wire-edge of novelty about this adventure in motherhood had worn off ; when she could bathe them , dress them , feed them their very strictly regimented meals , without being spurred to the highest pitch of alertness by the fear of making a mistake -- forgetting something , like the juice of a half orange at ten o'clock in the morning , the omission of which might have -- who knew what disastrous consequences ! That attitude ca n't last any woman long , and Rose , with her wonderfully clever hands , her wits trained -- as the wits of persons who had worked for John Galbraith were always trained -- not to be told the same thing twice , her pride keeping in sharp focus the determination that Rodney should see that she could be as good a nurse as Miss French -- Rose wore off that nervous tenseness over her new job very quickly . Within a week she had a routine established that was noiseless -- frictionless . But do you remember how aghast she was over the forty weeks John Galbraith had talked about as the probable run of _ The Girl Up-stairs _ ; her consternation over the idea of just going on doing the same thing over and over again , `` around and round , like a horse at the end of a pole '' ?