eleven at night
That 's all , '' she had said . But on the night of Lily 's invitation he was to hear more of Louis Akers . It was his evening in the shop . One day he came on at seven-thirty in the morning and was off at six , and the next he came at ten and stayed until eleven at night . The evening business was oddly increasing . Men wandered in , bought a tube of shaving cream or a tooth-brush , and sat or stood around for an hour or so ; clerks whose families had gone to the movies , bachelors who found their lodging houses dreary , a young doctor or two , coming in after evening office hours to leave a prescription , and remaining to talk and listen . Thus they satisfied their gregarious instinct while within easy call of home .