About eight o’clock
Moreover , she wanted to find out which of the things she had bought sold quickly and which were unpopular . After a day or two her life fell into a regular programme . Early in the morning she would put the shop to rights for the day 's sale , dusting , replacing the things she had sold , rearranging them often according to some pretty new scheme . About eight o'clock the bell would call her into the shop and it would be brisk work until nine . Then would come a rest of three hours , broken only by an occasional customer . In this interval she often worked in the yard , raking up the leaves that fell from vine and bush , picking the bravely-blooming dahlias , gathering sprays of woodbine for the vases , scattering crumbs to the birds . At twelve the children would begin to flood the shop again and Maida would be on her feet constantly until two .