eleven o'clock
`` Thank you for a very pleasant evening . Come up and see us soon . '' She ran into the house without a word to Tom . THE SOCIAL ASPIRATIONS OF CAPTAIN McBANE It was only eleven o'clock , and Delamere , not being at all sleepy , and feeling somewhat out of sorts as the combined results of his afternoon 's debauch and the snubbing he had received at Clara 's hands , directed the major 's coachman , who had taken charge of the trap upon its arrival , to drive him to the St. James Hotel before returning the horses to the stable . First , however , the coachman left Ellis at his boarding-house , which was near by . The two young men parted with as scant courtesy as was possible without an open rupture . Delamere hoped to find at the hotel some form of distraction to fill in an hour or two before going home .