nine o'clock
At last on the Saturday morning -- I know now it must have been Saturday , but time did not count with me then -- I overheard Mrs. Abramovitch pleading for me with her husband , saying they knew I was in trouble and therefore I ought to have more time to find lodging , another week -- three days at all events . But the stern-natured man with his rigid religion was inexorable . It was God 's will that I should be punished , and who was he to step in between the All-high and his just retribution ? `` The woman is displeasing to God , '' he said , and then he declared that , the day being Sabbath -LRB- the two tall candlesticks and the Sabbath loaves must have been under his eyes at the moment -RRB- , he would give me until nine o'clock that night , and if I had not moved out by that time he would put my belongings into the street . I remember that the Jew 's threat made no impression upon my mind . It mattered very little to me where I was to lodge next week or what roof was to cover me . When I reached the Olivers ' that morning I found baby distinctly worse .