nine o'clock
All I ast him is to set still an ' let it come to him . Thank the Lord , I _ have _ known husbands that was n't chicken-hearted ! '' So Nance kept on reluctantly , even after Mr. Snawdor got a small job collecting . Sometimes she went to sleep over her task and had to be shaken awake , but that was before she began to drink black coffee with the other workers at nine o'clock . One thing puzzled her . When Ikey came from night school , he was never asked to help in the work , no matter how much his help was needed . He was always given the seat by the table nearest the lamp , and his father himself cleared a place for his books .