eleven o'clock
`` So soon ? Why , it seems as if we have been out barely two hours . '' `` And we have been out but a very little more , '' said Jim , looking at his watch . `` It is only eleven o'clock and it was a few minutes to nine when we left the hotel . Another half hour will put us to the gates of Bellvieu , eh , Gerald ? '' `` Surely , '' was the response , delivered in an `` I-told-you-so '' tone . Gradually they began to encounter more vehicles , the majority of which seemed to be traveling toward the city .