eleven o'clock
This excellent youth manufactures iced poison on Saffron Hill when he 's at home . '' `` And why on earth did n't he come to me quicker ? '' `` Because he could n't talk to you , he could only fetch you , and it was as much as his life was worth to do that before our friends had departed . They were going by the eleven o'clock from Victoria , and that did n't leave much chance , but he certainly ought n't to have run it as fine as he did . Still you must remember that I had to fix things up with him in the fewest possible words , in a single minute that the other two were indiscreet enough to leave us alone together . '' The ragamuffin in question was watching us with all his solitary eye , as though he knew that we were discussing him . Suddenly he broke out in agonized accents , his hands clasped , and a face so full of fear that every moment I expected to see him on his knees .