eleven
o'clock
Well , it is not a bad price -- thirty thousand pounds -- a good figure for any woman in the present state of the market . '' And with a hard and bitter laugh , and a prescience of sorrow to come lying at the heart , she threw down the remains of the Scarlet Turk and turned away . Ida , for obvious reasons , said nothing to her father of her interview with Edward Cossey , and thus it came to pass that on the morning following the lawn tennis party , there was a very serious consultation between the faithful George and his master . It appeared to Ida , who was lying awake in her room , to commence somewhere about daybreak , and it certainly continued with short intervals for refreshment till eleven o'clock in the forenoon . First the Squire explained the whole question to George at great length , and with a most extraordinary multiplicity of detail , for he began at his first loan from the house of Cossey and Son , which he had contracted a great many years before . All this while George sat with a very long face , and tried to look as though he were following the thread of the argument , which was not possible , for his master had long ago lost it himself , and was mixing up the loan of 1863 with the loan of 1874 , and the money raised in the severance of the entail with both , in a way which would have driven anybody except George , who was used to this sort of thing , perfectly mad . However he sat it through , and when at last the account was finished , remarked that things `` sartainly did look queer . ''