eleven o'clock
To them his visit was quite as important as to himself ; and by one of them , the elder namely , it was regarded with an anxiety quite as nervous . When he did call , he was received with all the hospitality due to an old friend . `` Why had he not come to tea the night before ? Tea had been kept for him till eleven o'clock . Why , at any rate , had he not come to breakfast ? He had been much nicer in Jerusalem , '' Miss Baker said . Bertram answered hardly with the spirit which had marked all that he had said in that far-away land .