eleven o'clock
Before I left the house last October , Mr. Carter did me the -- the great honour to ask me to -- to marry him . '' It gave her inward delight even to voice it ; it made the miracle seem more real . Bottomley and Pilgrim exchanged stupefied glances in a dead silence . `` I met him at eleven o'clock to-day , '' Harriet finished , simply , `` and we drove to Greenwich in Connecticut , and we were married at one o'clock . '' Bottomley and Pilgrim glanced again at each other , glanced at Harriet , opened their mouths slowly . Then Pilgrim dropped the hand she was familiarly caressing , and Bottomley rose slowly to his feet . `` Oh , no ! ''