three o'clock
I went to a pastry shop , and with a ten-copper piece of pie I put an end to my day 's wages . I spent the rest of the day like a chameleon because I had spent the money I 'd begged along the road . I did n't dare go begging anymore because if my mistress heard about it she would eat me alive . I went to her house at three o'clock ; she told me she did n't want to go out , but she warned me that from then on she would n't pay me on the days she did n't go out , and that if she only went out once a day she would give me five coppers and no more . But she said that since she was giving me a place to sleep , she expected to be served before all the others , and she wanted me to call myself her servant . For the sort of bed it was , she deserved that and even more . She made me sleep with the apprentices on a large table without a damned thing to cover us but a worn-out blanket .