seven o'clock
` If I want my servant out of the apartment it is because I do not want him to hear me talk with the woman . I can not be rude to her . I will have to make some kind of an explanation , ' I said to myself . `` The woman came at seven o'clock , and , as you may have guessed , I let her in and forgot the resolution I had made . It is likely I never had any intention of doing anything else . There was a bell on my door , but she did not ring , but knocked very softly . It seems to me that everything she did that evening was soft and quiet , but very determined and quick .