one o'clock
She 'll be in to-morrow , I guess . '' After his breakfast the following Monday morning , McTeague looked over the appointments he had written down in the book-slate that hung against the screen . His writing was immense , very clumsy , and very round , with huge , full-bellied l 's and h 's . He saw that he had made an appointment at one o'clock for Miss Baker , the retired dressmaker , a little old maid who had a tiny room a few doors down the hall . It adjoined that of Old Grannis . Quite an affair had arisen from this circumstance . Miss Baker and Old Grannis were both over sixty , and yet it was current talk amongst the lodgers of the flat that the two were in love with each other .