eleven in the evening
When he did so , it was generally to read in the `` Ateneo '' the books which he was unable to buy . `` You read here a great deal , friend Rivera , '' some friend would say , laying his hand on his shoulder . `` It is because I have n't any money , '' he would reply , with a laugh . When he returned home at half-past ten or eleven in the evening , his wife would be just about going to bed . That was the happiest time for Maximina . Since the birth of the baby they occupied separate apartments ; she slept in a room with two beds , with Juana ; he alone , in another chamber . Miguel enjoyed carrying to her room a little lunch , either brought in from outside or something already in the house ; for as Maximina was still nursing the baby , who was now fifteen months old , she felt very weary at this time of the day .