about ten o'clock in the morning
Good-bye ! ' And so , very affably , I was bowed out of my free-lance life , the which I had entered by way of the north-eastern slums . My first Monday in the _ Advocate _ office was not a pleasant day . Arriving there about ten o'clock in the morning , I learned that the editor was never expected before three in the afternoon . I knew no other person in the building , and so no place was open to me except the waiting-room . However , I whiled away the morning in that apartment by making a pretty thorough study of a file of the _ Advocate _ , in the course of which I took notes and made memoranda of suggestions which would have kept an editor busy for a week or two had he acted upon one half of them . The time thus spent was far from wasted , since it gave me more of an insight into current politics -LRB- as reflected in the pages of this particular organ -RRB- than I had obtained during my whole life in England up till then , and it gave me a thorough grasp of the policy of the _ Advocate _ .