nearly eleven o'clock
Any pleasant evening in summer you can see dozens of couples walking down that path . `` Haskell was here Monday evening with a young lady . They sat for a while on the trunk of a fallen tree , looking off toward the river . `` It was nearly eleven o'clock when Haskell walked home with her . Then he discovered that he had lost his knife . He had been whittling the tree-trunk with it . `` It was a good knife , and he thought it worth while to go back and try to find it .