eight o'clock
Calculating with electricians over the plugs for floor lamps . Herself edging pantry shelves in cotton lace . Latz liked her so , with her fragrantly coiffured head , scarcely gray , back against his shoulder , and with his newspapers , Wall Street journals and the comic weeklies which he liked to read , would sit an entire evening thus , moving only when his joints rebelled , his pipe smoke carefully directed away from her face . Weeks and weeks of this , and already Louis Latz 's trousers were a little out of crease , and Mrs. Latz , after eight o'clock and under cover of a very fluffy and very expensive negligée , would unhook her stays . Sometimes friends came in for a game of small-stake poker , but after the second month they countermanded the standing order for Saturday night musical-comedy seats . So often they discovered it was pleasanter to remain at home . Indeed , during these days of household adjustment , as many as four evenings a week Mrs. Latz dozed there against her husband 's shoulder , until about ten , when he kissed her awake to forage with him in the great white porcelain refrigerator and then to bed .