9 A.M.
Then her new life began , the rapture ceased , and Myra Craig , like so many others , found that her existence in the city was just as narrow as it had been in the town . In some ways , more narrow . She was quite without friends , quite without neighborhood . Her day consisted in teaching from 9 A.M. to 3 P.M. , correcting papers and planning lessons and making reports until well into the evening , sometimes until late in the night , and meeting at meals unfriendly people that she disliked . Her class was composed of rather stupid , rather dirty children . They _ smelled _ -- a thing she never forgave them . And what could one woman do with fifty or sixty children ?