eleven o'clock
Then late in the evening a measure of it was restored when Nina and Leslie effected a reconciliation . It followed several bad hours when Nina had locked her door against them all , but at ten o'clock she sent for Leslie and faced him with desperate calmness . To Elizabeth , putting cold cloths on her mother 's head as she lay on the bed , there came a growing conviction that the relation between men and women was a complicated and baffling thing , and that love and hate were sometimes close together . Love , and habit perhaps , triumphed in Nina 's case , however , for at eleven o'clock they heard Leslie going down the stairs and later on moving about the kitchen and pantry while whistling softly . The servants had gone , and the air was filled with the odor of burning bread . Some time later Mrs. Wheeler , waiting uneasily in the upper hall , beheld her son-in-law coming up and carrying proudly a tray on which was toast of an incredible blackness , and a pot which smelled feebly of tea . `` The next time you 're out of a cook just send for me , '' he said cheerfully .