about eleven
o’clock
Only , as soon as the latter had got rid of the job and had found Gagniere in a corner of the drawing-room , they both began sneering and recalling , in terrible language , all the abominations of yore . Dubuche was expected that evening , for he had formally promised to come . ` Yes , ' explained Henriette , ` there will only be nine of us . Fagerolles wrote this morning to apologise ; he is forced to go to some official dinner , but he hopes to escape , and will join us at about eleven o'clock . ' At that moment , however , a servant came in with a telegram . It was from Dubuche , who wired : ` Impossible to stir . Alice has an alarming cough . '