seven o’clock
When Carrie had returned home , flushed with her first success and ready , for all her weariness , to discuss the now interesting events which led up to her achievement , the former had merely smiled approvingly and inquired whether she would have to spend any of it for car fare . This consideration had not entered in before , and it did not now for long affect the glow of Carrie 's enthusiasm . Disposed as she then was to calculate upon that vague basis which allows the subtraction of one sum from another without any perceptible diminution , she was happy . When Hanson came home at seven o'clock , he was inclined to be a little crusty -- his usual demeanour before supper . This never showed so much in anything he said as in a certain solemnity of countenance and the silent manner in which he slopped about . He had a pair of yellow carpet slippers which he enjoyed wearing , and these he would immediately substitute for his solid pair of shoes . This , and washing his face with the aid of common washing soap until it glowed a shiny red , constituted his only preparation for his evening meal .