about eleven o'clock
`` I pile 'em up anyhow to carry 'em downstairs ! '' Breakfast over , Susan still loitered in her own apartments . She wanted to see Stephen , but not enough to risk encountering someone else in the halls . At about eleven o'clock , Ella knocked at the door , and came in . `` I 'm in a horrible rush , '' said Ella , sitting down on the bed and interesting herself immediately in a silk workbag of Emily 's that hung there . `` I only want to say this , Sue , '' she began . `` It has nothing to do with what we were talking of this morning , but -- I 've just been discussing it with Mamma !