eleven o'clock
The young man did not understand the middle-aged woman who sat beside him and talked so boldly . He knew of but one prominent man named Shaw and that man had been governor of Iowa and later a member of the cabinet of President McKinley . It startled him to think that a prominent member of the Republican party should have such thoughts or express such opinions . He talked of fishing in Canada and of a comic opera he had seen in New York and at eleven o'clock yawned and disappeared behind the green curtains . As the young man lay in his berth he muttered to himself , `` Now what did that woman want ? '' A thought came into his mind and he reached up to where his trousers swung in a little hammock above the window and looked to see that his watch and pocket-book were still there . At home Laura Ormsby nursed the thought of the talk with the strange man on the train .