about eleven o'clock
Often , when there , she had seen him pass in and out . He had no need to come for books or periodicals , all these he could have at home ; but she had heard the librarian and him at work ; over the files of old papers containing accounts of early agricultural affairs and the first cattle-shows of the state . She resolved to go to the library : what desire had she ever known that she had not gratified ? When Marguerite , about eleven o'clock , approached the library a little fearfully , she saw Barbee pacing to and fro on the sidewalk before the steps . She felt inclined to turn back ; he was the last person she cared to meet this morning . Play with him had suddenly ended as a picnic in a spring grove is interrupted by a tempest . `` I ought to tell him at once , '' she said ; and she went forward .