three to eight o’clock
`` The count has a skin disease which makes him hideous . Doctor Albert has tried in vain to cure it . The count would give half his fortune if he had a chest like mine , '' said Oscar , swelling himself out . `` He lives a lonely life in his own house ; gets up very early in the morning and works from three to eight o'clock ; after eight he takes his remedies , -- sulphur-baths , steam-baths , and such things . His valet bakes him in a sort of iron box -- for he is always in hopes of getting cured . '' `` If he is such a friend of the King as they say he is , why does n't he get his Majesty to touch him ? '' asked Georges .