eleven o'clock
`` You liked the place so much that father and I agreed not to mar your enthusiasm by recalling an unpleasant legend , '' she said frankly . `` Not that what I 've related is n't true . The record appears in a Sussex Miscellany of those years ... . Oh , my goodness , can it be eleven o'clock ! '' The hall clock had no doubt on the point . Furneaux pocketed the written notes regarding Ingerman , and grabbed the hat off the table . Grant , for some reason , was aware that the detective repressed an obvious reference to the last occasion on which the girl had heard that same clock announce the hour .