eleven o'clock
` I do n't know what you mean by not liking it . I have not the slightest objection to lending you any money I can spare . I do n't think you 'll find any other of your friends who will like it better . You can have it by eleven o'clock to-morrow . ' Intimate as the two men were , there had hitherto been very little borrowing or lending between them ; and now Alaric felt as though he owed it to his intimacy with his friend to explain to him why he wanted so large a sum in so short a time . He felt , moreover , that he would not himself be so much ashamed of what he had done if he could confess it to some one else . He could then solace himself with the reflection that he had done nothing secret .