eleven o'clock
He opened the door himself . He was alone . '' `` Monsieur , '' said the deputy , interrupting him , `` you are saying something -- as Madame de Gorne , for that matter , did just now -- which is manifestly opposed to the truth . Mathias de Gorne did not come home last night until eleven o'clock . We have two definite proofs of this : his father 's evidence and the prints of his feet in the snow , which fell from a quarter past nine o'clock to eleven . '' `` Mr. Deputy , '' Jérôme Vignal declared , without heeding the bad effect which his obstinacy was producing , `` I am relating things as they were and not as they may be interpreted . But to continue .