A few minutes before eleven o'clock
Yet the canon 's reticence had its taproot in the natural man who perforce did his strong deeds simply . `` Good night , '' he added cheerily , putting out his hand . `` I find that I can get a train back soon . '' A few minutes before eleven o'clock Shelby and his wife got out of a carriage at a west-side ferry . With North 's assurance that her husband was surely coming , Cora 's thoughts turned to the conventions which in the morning she had blithely whistled down the wind . It happened that a friend in the Jersey suburbs had within the week suggested that they visit Lakewood together , and the invitation no sooner recurred to her than she sent a message saying that she had found it possible immediately to join her at her home . Shelby had assented to this plan , and directly set about escorting her to her destination .