eleven o’clock in
the morning
Jenny watched her go , then listened to the sobs that came from the other side of the door , and said beneath her breath , `` Let her cry , poor girl . The crying has to be done by somebody , and it might as well be she . Crying is good for a woman sometimes , but when a man cries it hurts so much . '' Half an hour later , as Jenny was leaving the room for dinner , she heard Mrs. Quiggin telling Peggy Quine to ask at the office for her bill , and to order a carriage to be ready at the door for her at eleven o'clock in the morning . When the first burst of her vexation was spent Mrs. Quiggin made a secret and startling discovery . The man whom Jenny Crow had stumbled upon , first on the Head and afterward on the Laxey coach , could be no one in the world but her own husband . A certain shadowy suspicion of this had floated hazily before her mind at the beginning , but she had dismissed the idea and forgotten it .