eleven o'clock in the morning
`` I was away during the day , but I was here all last night . I asked you particularly if any call had been received for me . '' The clerk smiled tentatively . `` The chamber-maid found you in bed at eleven o'clock in the morning , sir . '' `` The chamber-maid must have come into the wrong room , '' answered Donaldson , beginning to suspect that he had caught the two men in the act of thieving . `` I was n't in bed at all yesterday , and left the city at nine o'clock . '' The clerk hitched uneasily .