I used to call it so once, but I never do now.
Yes, I manage about four hours a day.

I have made another pleasant discovery about myself--that I have the temper of a fiend if I am interrupted." "But surely you told the Gresleys when first you came that you must not be interrupted at certain hours ?" "I did.

I did.

But, of course--it is very natural--they think that rather self-important and silly.

I am thought very silly here, Rachel.
And James does not mind being interrupted in writing his sermons.