eleven
o'clock at night
`` You are , '' said she , with decision , `` if you think you 've got to see me home . '' He said he thought that , considering the lateness of the hour and the loneliness of the scene , it was better that he should accompany her . `` But I can accompany myself , '' said she . He smiled at the vision of Miss Dymond accompanying herself , at eleven o'clock at night , too -- the idea ! He smiled at it as if he saw in it something tender and absurd . He knew , of course , for he was not absolutely without experience , that girls said these things ; they said them to draw fellows on ; it was their artfulness . There was a word for it ; Ransome thought the word was `` cock-a-tree . ''