the Tuesday night about eleven o'clock
Towards the end of June , Coupeau lost his liveliness . He became most peculiar . Gervaise , feeling uneasy at some of his glances , barricaded herself in at night . Then , after having sulked ever since the Sunday , he suddenly came on the Tuesday night about eleven o'clock and knocked at her room . She would not open to him ; but his voice was so gentle and so trembling that she ended by removing the chest of drawers she had pushed against the door . When he entered , she thought he was ill ; he looked so pale , his eyes were so red , and the veins on his face were all swollen . And he stood there , stuttering and shaking his head .