eleven o'clock
I could break his heart with the sort of laugh I had practised before my mirror . It is a terrible thing to have a long-anticipated event finally overtake you . It is the most terrible thing of all to have to settle once and forever with _ man _ . Gordon came for me at eleven o'clock . I was flirting airily at the time with our village Beau Brummel , who was old enough to be my grandfather . Gordon slipped my little hand through his arm and carried me off to a lonely place in the conservatory . For a second it seemed a beautiful relief to be out of the noise and the glare -- and alone with Gordon .