nearly
eleven o'clock
And then the queer man who was walking up and down so disturbingly has gone out of the door . Oliver finds himself walking along a long street in a city . It is not a distinguished street by any means -- there are neither plate-glass shops nor ` residences ' on it -- just an ordinary street of little stores and small houses and occasionally an apartment building named for a Pullman car . In a good many houses the lights are out already -- it is nearly eleven o'clock and this part of St. Louis goes to bed early -- only the drugstores and the moving-picture theatres are still flaringly awake . His eyes read the sign that he passes mechanically , `` Dr. Edwin K. Buffinton -- Chiropractor , '' `` McMurphy and Kane 's , '' `` The Rossiter , '' with its pillars that look as if they had been molded out of marbled soap . Thought . Memory .