nearly eleven o'clock
`` My dear , a girl who can go out and take a walk at so early an hour in the morning is quite after my own heart . '' `` But , Aunt Susan , '' interrupted Lucy , `` do you really approve of a girl who burns the candle at both ends ? It so happens that I was obliged to invade Rosamund 's room last night , and I heard her reciting poetry in two voices , and then I heard her throw her voice into a distant part of the room , so that you might almost imagine that she was a ventriloquist . It was nearly eleven o'clock , and the doctor said he saw her walking along the high-road between four and five this morning . Do n't you think it is too much for her strength ? '' `` Never mind , dear , '' said Mrs. Brett , who was as kind in heart as her face appeared . `` I admire energy ; but the energy of the young is sometimes misdirected .