Six O'clock
Although Angela had equipped herself with a varied and serviceable trousseau , her clothes would not last forever . Odd necessities began to crop up not long after they were married , and he began to see that if they lived with anything like the freedom and care with which he had before he was married , his income would have to be larger and surer . The energy which these thoughts provoked was not without result . For one thing he sent the original of the East Side picture , `` Six O'clock '' to the American Academy of Design exhibition -- a thing which he might have done long before but failed to do . Angela had heard from Eugene that the National Academy of Design was a forum for the display of art to which the public was invited or admitted for a charge . To have a picture accepted by this society and hung on the line was in its way a mark of merit and approval , though Eugene did not think very highly of it . All the pictures were judged by a jury of artists which decided whether they should be admitted or rejected , and if admitted whether they should be given a place of honor or hung in some inconspicuous position .