eleven o'clock
`` Then let me have your decision before mail day . I may tell you , Shafto , that , irrespective of Mr. Tremenheere 's interest , you have given us entire satisfaction , and for this chance , and it _ is _ a chance , you have only yourself to thank . You can take a couple of days ' leave and let me hear from you definitely on Friday morning . '' It was only eleven o'clock , an oppressively warm July day , and Douglas walked up to Lincoln 's Inn Fields , took a seat in the cool shade of the finest trees in the largest square in London , and there endeavoured to think out some plan . `` I say , what a chance ! '' he muttered to himself . `` What a stroke of luck !