six o'clock
Circumstances had arisen which , had they occurred in the wintertime , would have been a serious embarrassment to the attic tenants in Sapps Court . As it chanced , the weather was warm and dry ; otherwise old Mrs. Prichard and Mrs. Burr would just have had to turn out , to allow the builder in , to attend to the front wall . For there was no doubt that it was bulging and ought to have been seen to , aeons ago . And it was some days since the landlord 's attention had been called , and Bartletts the builders had waked all the dwellers in Sapps Court who still slept at six o'clock , by taking out a half a brick or two to make a bearing for as many putlogs -- pronounced pudlocks -- as were needed for a little bit of scaffold . For there was more than you could do off a ladder , if you was God A'mighty Himself . Thus Mr. Bartlett , and Aunt M'riar condemned his impiety freely . Before the children !