eight to one o'clock
All her children were married . Her husband had gone in a box to a justice whose anger Mrs. Tam 's simple tongue might not soothe . She lived alone . Six half-days a week she worked about the house of Mrs. Maldon from eight to one o'clock , for a shilling per half-day and her breakfast . But if she chose to stay for it she could have dinner -- and a good one -- on condition that she washed up afterwards . She often stayed . After over forty years of incessant and manifold expert labour she was happy and content in this rich reward .