four o'clock mornings
`` But meanwhile , '' Claire persisted , `` I 'm living on you . Eating food for which I have n't the money to pay , having loving care for which I could n't pay , if I had all the money in the world . I guess I know how you settled my account with Mrs. Daggett . You gave her money you had been saving for the rent , and now you are working , slaving overtime , at four o'clock mornings , sweeping down the stairs , and late nights , making shirtwaists for Mrs. Snyder , to help supply what 's lacking . '' `` Just you wait till I see that Cora , '' observed Mrs. Slawson irrelevantly . `` That 's the time _ her _ past will have slopped over on her present , so 's she ca n't tell which is which . Just you wait till I see that Cora ! ''