about midnight
Right -- wrong ! Hypocritical words for comfortable people ! That Friday night , after her supper of half-cooked corn meal and tea , she went instantly to work at washing out clothes . Mrs. Tucker spent the evening gossiping with the janitress , came in about midnight . As usual she was full to the brim with news of misery -- of jobs lost , abandoned wives , of abused children , of poisoning from rotten `` fresh '' food or from `` embalmed '' stuff in cans , of sickness and yet more sickness , of maiming accidents , of death -- news that is the commonplace of tenement life . She loved to tell these tales with all the harrowing particulars and to find in each some evidence of the goodness of God to herself . Often Susan could let her run on and on without listening .