seven in the
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It 's a shame . `` Our domestic life -- our life at home , you mean ? Well , as to that , we do n't see much of our families . I leave home at half-past seven in the morning , and do n't get back again until half-past nine , or maybe later . The children are not up when I leave , and they 've gone to bed again before I come home . This is about my day : -- Leave London at 8.45 ; drive for four hours and a half ; cold snack on the engine step ; see to engine ; drive back again ; clean engine ; report myself ; and home . Twelve hours ' hard and anxious work , and no comfortable victuals .