seven o'clock
In the winter the children breakfasted in the kitchen ; Gus and Charley and Anna first , while the younger children were dressing . Gus was nineteen and was a clerk in a dry-goods store . Charley , eighteen months younger , worked in a feed store . They left the house by the kitchen door at seven o'clock , and then Anna helped her Aunt Tillie get the breakfast for the younger ones . Without the help of this sister-in-law , Tillie Kronborg , Mrs. Kronborg 's life would have been a hard one . Mrs. Kronborg often reminded Anna that `` no hired help would ever have taken the same interest . '' Mr. Kronborg came of a poorer stock than his wife ; from a lowly , ignorant family that had lived in a poor part of Sweden .