a quarter to seven in the
morning
Gone were all the fine dreams of pleasure and happiness which so recently had been so real -- the hope of living with Carlotta -- the hope of associating with her on easy and natural terms in that superior world which she represented . Angela 's insistence on the thought that he should work every day and bring home nine dollars a week , or rather its monthly equivalent , made it necessary for him to take sharp care of the little money he had kept out of the remainder of the three hundred in order to supply any deficiency which might occur from his taking time off . For there was no opportunity now of seeing Carlotta of an evening , and it was necessary to take a regular number of afternoons or mornings off each week , in order to meet her . He would leave the little apartment as usual at a quarter to seven in the morning , dressed suitably for possible out-door expeditions , for in anticipation of difficulty he had told Angela that it was his custom to do this , and sometimes he would go to the factory and sometimes he would not . There was a car line which carried him rapidly cityward to a rendezvous , and he would either ride or walk with her as the case might be . There was constant thought on his and her part of the risk involved , but still they persisted . By some stroke of ill or good fortune Norman Wilson returned from Chicago , so that Carlotta 's movements had to be calculated to a nicety , but she did not care .