eleven o'clock
But the worst of it is , one ca n't marry two at a time . '' `` That would be bigamy , '' said Mr. Gibson . `` Just so , '' said Brooke . Punctually at eleven o'clock on the Friday morning Mr. Gibson knocked at the door of the house in the Close . The reader must not imagine that he had ever wavered in his intention with regard to Dorothy Stanbury , because he had been driven into a corner by the pertinacious ingenuity of Miss French . He never for a moment thought of being false to Miss Stanbury the elder . Falseness of that nature would have been ruinous to him , -- would have made him a marked man in the city all his days , and would probably have reached even to the bishop 's ears .