the hours from nine a.m.
To her neither Tutt nor Mr. Tutt was any such great shakes . Had Tutt dared to let her know of many of the schemes which he devised for the profit or safety of his clients she would have thought less of him still ; in fact , she might have parted with him forever . In a sense Mrs. Tutt was an exacting woman . Though she somewhat reluctantly consented to view the hours from nine a.m. to five p.m. in her husband 's day as belonging to the law , she emphatically regarded the rest of the twenty-four hours as belonging to her . The law may be , as Judge Holmes has called it , `` a jealous mistress , '' but in the case of Tutt it was not nearly so jealous as his wife . So Tutt was compelled to walk the straight-and-narrow path whether he liked it or not . On the whole he liked it well enough , but there were times -- usually in the spring -- when without being conscious of what was the matter with him he mourned his lost youth .