about eleven o'clock
So they came in , followed , before long , by Clover and Elsie . Such a merry morning as they had ! Cousin Helen proved to possess a perfect genius for story-telling , and for suggesting games which could be played about her sofa , and did not make more noise than she could bear . Aunt Izzie , dropping in about eleven o'clock , found them having such a good time , that almost before she knew it , _ she _ was drawn into the game too . Nobody had ever heard of such a thing before ! There sat Aunt Izzie on the floor , with three long lamp-lighters stuck in her hair , playing , `` I 'm a genteel Lady , always genteel , '' in the jolliest manner possible . The children were so enchanted at the spectacle , that they could hardly attend to the game , and were always forgetting how many `` horns '' they had .