eleven o'clock
`` I have looked at you when you went past me on the street and I think you can understand . It is n't hard . All you have to do is to believe what I say , just listen and believe , that 's all there is to it . '' It was past eleven o'clock that evening when old Enoch , talking to George Willard in the room in the Heffner Block , came to the vital thing , the story of the woman and of what drove him out of the city to live out his life alone and defeated in Winesburg . He sat on a cot by the window with his head in his hand and George Willard was in a chair by a table . A kerosene lamp sat on the table and the room , although almost bare of furniture , was scrupulously clean . As the man talked George Willard began to feel that he would like to get out of the chair and sit on the cot also .