four o'clock
Pa 's awful bad , sometimes , when he 's just wakin ' up ! '' With a quickness not unlike the bump at the end of a falling-through-space dream , Rose-Marie felt herself drawn from the room -- heard the door close with a slam behind her . And then she was hurrying after the shadowy form of Bennie , down the five rickety flights of stairs -- past the same varied odours and the same appalling sounds that she had noticed on the way up ! When Rose-Marie came out into the sunlight of the street she glanced at her watch and saw , with an almost overwhelming surprise , that it was only four o'clock . It was just an hour since she had entered the cavern-like doorway of the tenement . But in that hour she had come , for the first time , against life in the rough . She had seen degeneracy , and poverty , and -- she was thinking of the expression in Jim 's eyes -- a menace that she did not at all understand .