It was time to return home.
The family insisted that Marcus and McTeague should take supper with them at their home and should stay over night.

Mrs.Sieppe argued they could get no decent supper if they went back to the city at that hour; that they could catch an early morning boat and reach their business in good time.

The two friends accepted.
The Sieppes lived in a little box of a house at the foot of B Street, the first house to the right as one went up from the station.

It was two stories high, with a funny red mansard roof of oval slates.

The interior was cut up into innumerable tiny rooms, some of them so small as to be hardly better than sleeping closets.