eleven in the
morning
Coolies in blue , with mysterious Chinese lettering on their kimonos and with bright towels about their heads , trotted past ; women with blackened teeth and with babies strapped on their backs clattered by on wooden shoes ; street venders sang their savory wares ; merchants displayed treasures of lacquer and ivory , street dancers posed and sang to the tinkle of the samisen . But to Percival it was at best a purgatory where he seemed to be doomed to wait through eternity . Not that he meant to speak to Bobby Boynton when she arrived or make the slightest sign of forgiveness . That she should have allowed Andy Black to keep her out from eleven in the morning until after three in the afternoon was even more shocking than her behavior to him the night before . He was resolved to show her by every means in his power that to even a disinterested acquaintance like himself her conduct was wholly unpardonable . Meanwhile that emotion to which the captain had so grossly alluded took entire and absorbing possession of him . Toward the middle of the afternoon Mrs. Weston joined him on the terrace in an anxious mood .