three o'clock
I realised that the profession of teaching not quite so easy a calling as might have appeared . My teaching for the day was finished but I could not get away . I had to wait alone until three o'clock . I understood that at three o'clock the students of my classes would finish cleaning up the rooms and report to me , whereupon I would go over the rooms . Then I would run through the students ' roll , and then be free to go home . Outrageous , indeed , to keep on chained to the school , staring at the empty space when he had nothing more to do , even though he was `` bought '' by a salary ! Other fellow teachers , however , meekly submitted to the regulation , and believing it not well for me , -- a new comer -- to fuss about it , I stood it .