eight o'clock
For two or three weeks she did not speak to him , and , after Philip had got over the discomfort of being cut by her , he was somewhat relieved to be free from so difficult a friendship . He had been a little disconcerted by the air of proprietorship she assumed over him . She was an extraordinary woman . She came every day to the studio at eight o'clock , and was ready to start working when the model was in position ; she worked steadily , talking to no one , struggling hour after hour with difficulties she could not overcome , and remained till the clock struck twelve . Her work was hopeless . There was not in it the smallest approach even to the mediocre achievement at which most of the young persons were able after some months to arrive . She wore every day the same ugly brown dress , with the mud of the last wet day still caked on the hem and with the raggedness , which Philip had noticed the first time he saw her , still unmended .