half past six
`` The boss makes out the orders , and we go where we are sent . '' `` Well , '' the widow said , smiling brilliantly , and moving across the room to the table where the dishes taken from the closet were piled , `` it ca n't be helped , I suppose ; but I hope you will let me get things cleared up in time for dinner . '' `` Oh , I 'll surely get through by eleven or half past . '' `` And I do n't have dinner till half past six . '' The carpenter looked up questioningly . Then he went on with his work . `` I never can get used to city ways , '' he observed .