seven in the morning
The day in the factory was just twelve hours long . His mother sat waiting for him rather anxiously . He had to walk from Keston , so was not home until about twenty past nine . And he left the house before seven in the morning . Mrs. Morel was rather anxious about his health . But she herself had had to put up with so much that she expected her children to take the same odds . They must go through with what came .