six o'clock
That troubled evening was followed by a quiet period , lasting from Wednesday to Saturday , during which there were no brawls indoors , and Fan was free of the hateful task of going out to collect pence in the streets . Joe had been offered a three or four days ' job ; he had accepted it gratefully because it was only for three or four days , and for that period he would be the sober , stolid , British workman . The pleasures of the pot-house would claim him on Saturday , when he would have money in his pockets and the appetite that comes from abstention . On Saturday morning after he had left the house at six o'clock , Fan started up from her cot and came to her mother 's side at the table . `` Mother , may I go out to the fields to-day ? '' she asked . `` I know if I go straight along the Edgware Road I 'll come to them soon .