about six
in the morning
The average domestic servant is treated like a trained dog . '' `` Did you ever try it ? '' `` I went to work in a hotel as chamber maid , once . I worked from about six in the morning till after ten at night . Then four of us girls slept in two beds in a kind of box under the verandah stairs in the back yard . We had to leave the window open to get air , and in the middle of the first night a light woke me up and a man was staring through the window at us with a match in his hand . I wanted the twelve shillings so I stood it for a week and , then got another place . ''