six o'clock
Carmela would remonstrate with her . `` You are not going alone ? '' `` Only to mass . '' On the morning of the fifteenth of August she did not go with the others to the parish church at six o'clock , but she was up early , nevertheless . She wrote a letter , and presently , having sealed it , she dropped it out of the window . A boy who had been lingering about the piazza since dawn , and staring up at the close-shuttered fronts of the tall houses , picked it up and ran off with it . When Maria and Carmela came back with their aunt soon after seven they drank their black coffee in the kitchen before going to their rooms to rest .