about seven in the morning
Henry used to grumble about it , and then she 'd get mad , and that 's how it begun . And then the neighbors talked too . It was after that that he got to coming to see me . I was living out in service then , and he used to stop in to see me on his way back from the bank , about seven in the morning , when I was up in the kitchen getting breakfast . I 'd give him a cup of coffee or something , and that 's how we got acquainted . '' She turned her face away , and looked at the lights farther down the street . `` They said a good deal about me and him that was n't true . ''