about
eleven o’clock
`` We are going to take a little house out at Corstorphine , '' he said , `` and we hope to see your face at our table , Bob , as often as you can possibly come . '' I thanked him , and tried to shake off my apprehensions , and persuade myself that all would yet be well . It was about three weeks before the time fixed for the marriage , that Cowles remarked to me one evening that he feared he would be late that night . `` I have had a note from Kate , '' he said , `` asking me to call about eleven o'clock to-night , which seems rather a late hour , but perhaps she wants to talk over something quietly after old Mrs. Merton retires . '' It was not until after my friend 's departure that I suddenly recollected the mysterious interview which I had been told of as preceding the suicide of young Prescott . Then I thought of the ravings of poor Reeves , rendered more tragic by the fact that I had heard that very day of his death . What was the meaning of it all ?