twelve
o'clock
So she supported herself and her mother ; while May and Sally did the rough basting and all sorts of odd jobs in the room behind the parlour . Here were the big cutting-out table , the treadled sewing machine , three or four chairs , many fragments of material , several half-made garments , and , upon the walls , a number of coloured prints from fashion papers . In such surroundings Sally spent her days . She ate her lunch at twelve o'clock , and had her tea at four . And as her fingers worked , or her feet occasionally by special permission propelled the sewing machine , she thought of the future and planned to get into the West End . It was the West End that now lured her . If only she could get into the West End all her troubles would be wiped away at once , she felt .