seven o'clock in
the morning
I was sixty . I was thirty-five when I got married and my wife was only twenty-two , so when I was sixty she was only forty-seven . One girl was twenty-three and the other twenty . I went to work at seven o'clock in the morning and got home at seven at night . My wife and daughters went to theatres , dinners , and parties , and of course I stayed at home and kept house with the servant girl . In my business I had taken in two young fellows as partners , both good , honest men , but soon they got to figuring that on business points they were two and I was one , and pretty soon all I had to do was to put wood on the fire and feed the office cat . So you can see I was pretty lonesome about eighteen hours out of the twenty-four . ''