half past
seven o'clock
`` No , he wa n't . There wa n't nobody in the store but Susie Ellis , that keeps the books there now , and Abner Burgess 's boy , that runs errands and waits on folks when everybody else is busy . That was a funny thing , too -- that about Leander 's not bein ' there . Susie said she had n't seen him since just after breakfast time , half past seven o'clock or so , and when she telephoned the Babbitt house it turned out he had n't been there , neither . Had his breakfast and went out , he did , and that 's all his step-ma knew about him . But Phineas , he ... . Eh ?