eleven o’clock
Just go quietly and peaceably along with us , please , and tell us what Mrs. Vesey decided to do about her part in ` The Outcast Pearl ' . I 'm dining out tonight -- I must know . ' And Mrs. Mickie was kind enough to accompany them all the rest of the way . Miss Anderson dined out , and preferred to suppose that she had no time to think until she was on her way home along the empty road round Jakko at eleven o'clock that night . Then it pleased her to get out of her rickshaw and walk . There was an opulent moon , the vast hills curving down to the plains were all grey and silvery , and the deodars overhead fretted the road with dramatic shadows . About her hung the great stillness in a mighty loneliness in which little Simla is set , and it freed her from what had happened , so that she could look at it and cry out .