eleven o'clock
So futile to make up and quarrel , make up and quarrel . He was impatient that her distant sobs expressed so clearly a wordless demand that he come to her and make peace . `` Hell ! '' he crawked ; jerked his top-coat from its nail , and left the flat -- eleven o'clock of a chilly November evening . Dizzy with all the problems of life , he did not notice where he went . He walked blocks ; took a trolley-car ; got off to buy a strong cigar ; took the next trolley that came along ; was carried across the Fifty-ninth Street bridge to Long Island . At the eighth or tenth stop he hurried out of the car just as it was starting again .