a quarter past six
`` There 's only one way to learn , '' said he quietly . `` That 's the way I 've marked out for you . Do n't forget -- we start up at seven . You can breakfast with me at a quarter past six , and we 'll come down together . '' As Arthur walked homeward he pictured himself in jumper and overalls on his way from work of an evening -- meeting the Whitneys -- meeting Janet Whitney ! Like all Americans , who become inoculated with `` grand ideas , '' he had the super-sensitiveness to appearances that makes foreigners call us the most snobbishly conventional people on earth . What would it avail to be in character _ the _ refined person in the community and in position _ the _ admired person , if he spent his days at menial toil and wore the livery of labor ?