seven in the morning
`` But you might have if you would . '' `` Much you know about it ! Did you ever try to find a place in a store ? '' `` When I was thirteen and you left mother and me '' -- Olga 's voice was very low now , but it thrilled with bitter memories -- `` I walked the streets for three long days hunting for work , and I found it at last in a laundry where I stood from seven in the morning till six at night , with only fifteen minutes at noon . And I stayed there while mother lived , going back to her to care for her through those long dreadful nights of misery . That is what I know about hard work , Sonia ! '' It was Sonia 's turn now to be silent .