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Good day friends,
would you please help me about the following parts?

1.what does the bold word mean in the sentence? The sentence extracted from Harper lee's new novel:

Atticus Finch shot his left cuff, then cautiously pushed it back. One-forty. On some days he wore two watches:

If it shows the time, why it has hyphen?

2. would you please tell me about the bold part in the following paragraph? 
who is the man?

She was a person who, when confronted with an easy way out, always took the hard way. The easy way out of this would be to marry Hank and let him labor for her. After a few years, when the children were waist-high, the man would come along whom she should have married in the first place. There would be searchings of hearts, fevers and frets, long looks at each other on the post office steps, and misery for everybody. The hollering and the high-mindedness over, all that would be left would be another shabby little affair à la the Birmingham country club set, and a self-constructed private Gehenna with the latest Westinghouse appliances.

Thank you