eleven o'clock
`` Strange things come to me . '' Marion longed to tell her then and there the great news , but she was afraid to do so , and was , moreover , withheld by the remembrance that it had been agreed she should not be told . She said nothing . At eleven o'clock the rooms were filled . For the fag end of the season , people seemed unusually brilliant . The evening itself was not so hot as common , and there was an extra array of distinguished guests . Marion was nervous all the evening , though she showed little of it , being most prettily employed in making people pleased with themselves .