seven o'clock
`` Where do you live ? '' '' ` Bout a mile from here , on the Beach Plains . '' `` What time do you begin milking ? '' '' ` Bout seven o'clock . '' `` I 'll go to-morrow morning and help you , '' said the teacher . `` We must be on time -- that 's a necessary law of the school . '' At a quarter before seven in the morning , Sidney Trove presented himself at the Homers ' .