nearly seven o'clock
I was attending business college then , and sick as he was , he used to give me dictation for practise . He made us all go into professions ; the girls , too . He did n't like us to just run . '' Wanning would have liked to keep Annie and hear more about her family , but it was nearly seven o'clock , and he knew he ought , in mercy , to let her go . She was the only person to whom he had talked about his illness who had been frank and honest with him , who had looked at him with eyes that concealed nothing . When he broke the news of his condition to his partners that morning , they shut him off as if he were uttering indecent ravings . All day they had met him with a hurried , abstracted manner .