eleven o'clock
Well , well , I can do nothing more . Let us walk in these beautiful woods , Watson , and give a few hours to the birds and the flowers . We shall meet you here later , Hopkins , and see if we can come to closer quarters with the gentleman who has paid this visit in the night . '' It was past eleven o'clock when we formed our little ambuscade . Hopkins was for leaving the door of the hut open , but Holmes was of the opinion that this would rouse the suspicions of the stranger . The lock was a perfectly simple one , and only a strong blade was needed to push it back . Holmes also suggested that we should wait , not inside the hut , but outside it among the bushes which grew round the farther window .