eight o'clock
She was helping Aunt Harriet to close the house and getting her small wardrobe in order . And once a day she went to a school of languages and painfully learned from a fierce and kindly old Frenchman a list of French nouns and prefixes like this : _ Le livre , le crayon , la plume , la fenêtre _ , and so on . By the end of ten days she could say : '' _ La rose sent-elle bon ? _ '' Considering that Harvey came every night and ran the gamut of the emotions , from pleading and expostulation at eight o'clock to black fury at ten , when he banged out of the house , Sara Lee was amazingly calm . If she had moments of weakness , when the call from overseas was less insistent than the call for peace and protection -- if the nightly drawn picture of the Leete house , with tile mantels and a white bathroom , sometimes obtruded itself as against her approaching homelessness , Sara Lee made no sign . She had her photograph taken for her passport , and when Harvey refused one she sent it to him by mail , with the word `` Please '' in the corner . Harvey groaned over it , and got it out at night and scolded it wildly ; and then slept with it under his pillows , when he slept at all .