eleven o'clock
His blue eyes were shining like the sun from behind a cloud , and the cruellest looks could not have hurt me more . I tried to keep my face from expressing the emotion I desired to conceal , and asked if he had caught a train easily from Portsmouth , seeing he had arrived so early . `` No . Oh no , there was no train up until eleven o'clock , '' he said . `` Then how did you get here so soon ? '' I asked , and though he would not tell me at first I got it out of him at last -- he had hired a motor-car and travelled the ninety miles to London in two hours and a half . That crushed me .