six o'clock
She would eat only convent fare at first , notwithstanding the importunities of the waiters , and the jocularities of the captain , and particularly of the clerk . Every one knows the fund of humor possessed by a steamboat clerk , and what a field for display the table at meal-times affords . On Friday she fasted rigidly , and she never began to eat , or finished , without a little Latin movement of the lips and a sign of the cross . And always at six o'clock of the evening she remembered the angelus , although there was no church bell to remind her of it . She was in mourning for her father , the sisters told the captain , and she was going to New Orleans to her mother . She had not seen her mother since she was an infant , on account of some disagreement between the parents , in consequence of which the father had brought her to Cincinnati , and placed her in the convent . There she had been for twelve years , only going to her father for vacations and holidays .