eleven o'clock
`` We shall see , '' said the lawyer . Early on the following morning Brian received a message from his mother . It was the first communication that she had vouchsafed to him since the day of her eldest son 's death . `` Would he come to her dressing-room at eleven o'clock ? She wished to consult him upon special business . '' Brian sent word that he would be with her at that hour , and then fell into anxious meditation as he sat at breakfast , with Hugo at the other end of the table . `` Do n't go far away from the house , Hugo , '' he said at last , as he rose to leave the room .