three in the morning
They rowed on the lake , and Hardy cast his trolling-bait with the long accurate cast habitual to him , and caught four pike , and then directed the boat to be rowed ashore . As Frøken Helga stepped ashore , where her father and brothers were waiting for her , she said , `` I can understand the boys ' enthusiasm for Herr Hardy ; when Lars -LRB- the boatman -RRB- pointed out a place where a pike might be , although yards away , the bait was dropped in it and the pike caught . I wish Herr Hardy would let me see him catch fish on the Gudenaa with flies . '' `` We can do that to-morrow evening , '' said Hardy , `` as you can not get up at three in the morning , as we are accustomed to do . '' `` I can not let little father miss his evening talk with you , Herr Hardy , and to get up at three in the morning these summer days is no hardship to me . May I go to-morrow ? '' asked Helga .