about eleven o'clock in the evening
He had found a place somewhere on Dartmoor where he hid himself from the destroyers , from the dreadful little people , where he hid himself from Rose . It helped her -- not to have the question raised . Now -LRB- they were in August of nineteen-ten -RRB- Tanqueray was back again with his question . He had left her , about eleven o'clock in the evening , in her study , facing it . Not but that he had provided her with a solution , a positive solution . `` Jinny , '' he had said , `` why do n't you do as I do ? Why do n't you go away , if it was only for a few months every year ? ''