eleven o'clock in the morning
`` I shall see her whenever she will permit me -- and since she is not at home at the present moment , I shall now await her return outside the house , and defy the savage old bull-dog inside it . '' Leaving John Martin too taken aback with astonishment to articulate a syllable , Shiel withdrew . True to his word , he waited to see Gladys . He paced up and down the road in front of the house from eleven o'clock in the morning , when his interview with John Martin had terminated , till eight o'clock in the evening , and was just beginning to think he would have to give up all hope of seeing her that day , when she came in sight . `` Really ! '' she exclaimed , after Shiel had explained the situation . `` Do you mean to say you have stayed here all day ? ''