about eleven o'clock
at night
`` I was afraid -- '' `` My dear fellow , '' I said , `` I 'm delighted . But you have n't told me yet exactly how it happened . '' `` I was moving a packing-case , '' said Bob , `` a rather large one -- '' He hesitated . I think he felt that the packing-case might require some explanation , especially as it was being moved at about eleven o'clock at night . I hastened to reassure him . `` Quite a proper thing for you to be doing , '' I said , `` and certainly no business of Godfrey 's . Every one has a perfect right to move packing-cases about from place to place . ''