11 A.M.
This is one of the things which sour the young author even more than do those long envelopes which so tastefully decorate his table of a morning . He felt particularly unfitted for writing at that moment . The morning is not the time for inventive work . An article may be polished then , or a half-finished story completed , but 11 A.M. is not the hour at which to invent . Jerry Garnet wandered restlessly about his sitting room . Rarely had it seemed so dull and depressing to him as it did then . The photographs on the mantelpiece irritated him .