eleven o'clock
What was more important was that Mr and Mrs Stratton were at the back of the venture . If so , it was not a swindle , and the grub was pretty sure to be right . The new price list , moreover , was very satisfactory , and on the whole the hours were approved of . When the eleven o'clock bell sounded , on the Wednesday morning , a general movement was made for the Watch-Tower Gate , where , firmly entrenched behind a clean counter piled up with the good things a schoolboy holds dear , demurely stood D'Arcy and Lickford , looking very anxious and scared . At judiciously selected points among the crowd their friends looked on sympathetically . After the laughter which had greeted the discovery had died away , an awkward pause ensued . No one exactly liked to start .