Maybe I was mistaken.

The way your father spoke last night sort of made me think so." Aunt Maria made up her mind that if Harry was out late the next Sunday, and the next Wednesday, that would be a test of the situation.

The first time had been Wednesday, and Wednesday and Sunday, in all provincial localities, are the acknowledged courting nights.

Of course it sometimes happens that an ardent lover goes every night; but Harry Edgham, being an older man and a widower, would probably not go to that extent.
He soon did, however.

Very soon Maria and her aunt went to bed every night before Harry came home, and Miss Ida Slome became more loving towards Maria.
Wollaston Lee, boy as he was, child as he was, really suffered.