about ten o’clock
On the first Sunday , however , war broke out . The couple had a goodly sum of money in the house , and they spent it freely . During the night , when they were both drunk , they beat each other outrageously , without being able to remember on the morrow how it was that the quarrel had commenced . They had remained on most affectionate terms until about ten o'clock , when Antoine had begun to beat Fine brutally , whereupon the latter , growing exasperated and forgetting her meekness , had given him back as much as she received . She went to work again bravely on the following day , as though nothing had happened . But her husband , with sullen rancour , rose late and passed the remainder of the day smoking his pipe in the sunshine . From that time forward the Macquarts adopted the kind of life which they were destined to lead in the future .