Eight o'clock
`` But I DO believe that dime is too smooth . '' She looked at it critically . The clock on the power-house of the Sutter Street cable struck eight . `` Eight o'clock already , '' she exclaimed . `` I must get to work . '' She cleared the breakfast things from the table , and drawing up her chair and her workbox began painting the sets of Noah 's ark animals she had whittled the day before . She worked steadily all the morning .