nine to ten in the evening
And with a slight glow of pride in himself Roger took his book in hand . The experiment was a decided success . He read again the next night and the next , while Edith sat at her sewing . And so this hour 's companionship , from nine to ten in the evening , became a regular custom -- just one hour and no more , which Roger spent with his daughter , intimately and pleasantly . Yes , life was certainly smoothing out . Edith 's three older children had been reinstated in school . And although at first , when deprived of their aid , she had found it nearly impossible to keep her two small boys amused and give them besides the four hours a day of fresh air they required , she had soon met this trouble by the same simple process as before .