three
o'clock in the morning
`` Ah ! Well , I can breakfast with coffee or cocoa . The next time I go on the march , I shall take two or three pounds of cocoa in my box . Many a time I have longed for a cup , when we have started at three o'clock in the morning , and have felt that it would be well worth a guinea a cup . Now I shall have the satisfaction of always starting with a good warm drink , which is as good for hunger as thirst . I have often wondered how I could have been fool enough not to bring a supply with me . '' `` Yes , it would have been very comforting , '' Lisle agreed ; `` we shall know better , another time . ''