eleven
o'clock
She had as good as engaged him by a promise , and , moreover , there was her cuff to be returned . ... Well , the visit must be paid this morning . ` Bias would be arriving by the afternoon train ; and , apart from that , when you 've a daunting job that can not be escaped , the wise course is to play the man and get it over . Still , he could not well present himself at Rilla Farm before eleven o'clock -- say half-past eleven -- or noon even . No , that would be too late ; might suggest a hint of staying to dinner -- which God forbid ! He resolved upon eleven . He grudged to lose the latter half of the morning ; for the gardens -- his and Hunken 's -- had yet to be explored , and the rainwater cisterns in rear of the houses , and the back premises generally , and the patches where the cabbages grew .