About 9 o'clock
` Cora fixed supper , and then we waited . He did not come ; but I felt so sure some way that he would that I was not uneasy . The children finally had to eat alone . About 9 o'clock he came . Dear Miss Thorn , if you have never seen a raving , frenzied man , pray God you never may . This was the way he came home . He had had just enough of liquor to fire up a gnawing , burning pain and not enough to satisfy him .