half past eleven
Lindsay 's face cleared . This was satisfactory and proper ; there was no more to be said about it . She looked up with a smile to where the old butler beamed upon her for her youth and beauty and her accent and her name . A handful of busy men left the Capitol in some annoyance that morning because the Governor had telephoned that he could not be there before half past eleven . They would have been more annoyed , perhaps , if they had seen him dashing about the station light-heartedly just before the eleven-o'clock train for Bristol left . They said to each other : `` It must be a matter of importance that keeps him . Governor Rudd almost never throws over an appointment .