eleven o'clock
He had heard all the necessary things said : in fact , had said them himself -- now in evening dress , now in hunting costume , now in the loose habiliments of Pierrot -- time and time again . The dissatisfied _ fiance _ need but say that he could not feel , after all , that they were as well suited to each other as they ought to be , that he could not bring himself to believe that his feeling for her was what love really should be , and that -- Thus , with a multiplicity of `` that 's , '' they accomplished a rough draft which might be restudied and used on the morrow . `` There ! '' said Lemoyne to the weary Cope at eleven o'clock ; `` it ought to have been written a month ago . '' Cope languidly slipped the oft-amended sheet under his pile of themes and in a spent voice suggested bed . Over night and through the following forenoon the draft lay on his desk . When he returned to his room at three o'clock a note , which had been delivered by hand , awaited him .