two
until six
Every afternoon she played accompaniments for people who looked and smiled like these . She was getting tired of the human countenance . Thea had been in Chicago for two months . She had a small church position which partly paid her living expenses , and she paid for her singing lessons by playing Bowers 's accompaniments every afternoon from two until six . She had been compelled to leave her old friends Mrs. Lorch and Mrs. Andersen , because the long ride from North Chicago to Bowers 's studio on Michigan Avenue took too much time -- an hour in the morning , and at night , when the cars were crowded , an hour and a half . For the first month she had clung to her old room , but the bad air in the cars , at the end of a long day 's work , fatigued her greatly and was bad for her voice . Since she left Mrs. Lorch , she had been staying at a students ' club to which she was introduced by Miss Adler , Bowers 's morning accompanist , an intelligent Jewish girl from Evanston .