one o'clock
`` Of all the ` glad crowd ' , as David calls us , I am the only woman who comes directly in contact with the struggling , working , hand-to-hand fight of life , and I ca n't help letting it affect me in my judgment of -- of us . I ca n't forget it when -- when I amuse myself or let David amuse me . I seem to belong with them and not in the life he would make for me ; yet you know I care -- but if you are going to get out that extra edition you must get to work . I will sit here and get up my one o'clock notes for the imp , and if you need me , tell me so . '' The major bestowed a slow quizzical smile upon her and took up his pen . For an hour they both wrote rapidly with now a quick question from the major and a concise answer from Phoebe , or a short debate over the wording of one of his sentences or paragraphs . The editorial minds of the graybeard and the girl were of much the same quality and they had written together for many years .