midnight
Usually Sunday night was dull , all the men having spent their spare money the night before , and it being a bad night for married men to make excuses for getting away from home . Maud explained that , except `` out-of-towners , '' the married men were the chief support of their profession -- `` and most of the cornhuskers are married men , too . '' But Susan had the novice 's luck . When she and Maud met Maud 's `` little gentleman friend '' Harry Tucker at midnight and went to Considine 's for supper , Susan had taken in `` presents '' and commissions twenty-nine dollars and a half . Maud had not done so badly , herself ; her net receipts were twenty-two fifty . She would not let Susan pay any part of the supper bill , but gave Harry the necessary money . `` Here 's a five , '' said she , pressing the bill into his hand , `` and keep the change . ''