eleven o'clock
But she had considered nothing . After glancing at the telegram , she had told Merat to pack a few clothes , and had rushed away . She pondered the various excuses she might have sent . She might have said she was not in when the telegram came , she had only just caught the train as it was ; if she had not got the telegram before eleven o'clock she would have been safe . But all that was past now , Lady Asher had died before she arrived . It were better that she had died -- anything were better rather than that scene should have taken place ; for she could not have promised to marry Owen . What would she have done ?