ten o'clock
They attended prayer meetings regularly : they made up the congregation on Wednesday evenings . But now they neglected this service and gathered in the upper chambers of the Woman 's Building . The community was going to the dogs . Every man said so to every other man he met on the square , but no man confided to the other that his wife had been out until half-past ten o'clock the night before . One evening Stark Coleman was in the library reading the _ Signal _ . His wife came in , seated herself , and overflowed the low rocking-chair on the other side of the table with her voluminous skirts . She was tall and very large .