eleven o'clock
When the girl was seventeen she was engaged . She kept a town fellow and had a college fellow . She acquired a `` gentleman friend '' in Kansas City who gave her expensive presents . These her mother took great joy in displaying , and never objected when he stayed after eleven o'clock ; for she thought he was `` such a good catch '' and such a `` swell young man . '' But Nora shooed him off the front porch in the summer following , because he objected to her having two or three other eleven o'clock fellows . She said he was `` selfish , and would not let her have a good time . '' At nineteen she knew more about matters that were none of her business than most women know on their wedding day , and the boys said that she was soft .