eleven o’clock
No , I could not take such a risk . I thought it all out very carefully . '' `` You credit us with more energy , Miss Baxter , than we possess . I can assure you that if you had come here at ten or eleven o'clock with the documents , I should have been compelled to purchase them from you . However , that is all past and done with , and there is no use in our saying anything more about it . I am willing to take all the blame for our defeat on my shoulders , but there are some other things I am not willing to do , and perhaps you are in a position to clear up a little misunderstanding that has arisen in this office . I suppose I may take it for granted that you overheard the conversation which took place between Mr. Alder and myself in this room yesterday afternoon ? ''