eleven o'clock
They did try to make her eat and drink , -- tried to make her drink champagne , or any other wine ; but they had no fool to deal with . The girl did not , I think , let her captors know how desperate were her resolutions . But her eyes were wide open , and she was not going to lose any chance . She was all on the alert for her escape when , at eleven o'clock , the Dane came at last whom she had been expecting so anxiously . The girl asked him for her brother , only to be put off by one excuse or another , and then to hear from him the most loathsome talk of his admiration , not to say his passion , for her . They were nearly alone by this time , and he led her unresisting , as he thought , into another smaller room , brilliantly lighted , and , as she saw in a glance , gaudily furnished , with wine and fruit and cake on a side - table , -- a room where they would be quite alone . She walked simply across and looked at herself in the great mirror .