about eleven o'clock
`` I 've got an iron hot now . '' `` Some day , Minnie , '' he announced , `` you will wear a halo and with the angels sing . '' This mood of unreasoning happiness continued all morning . He went from house to house , properly grave and responsible but with a small song in his heart , and about eleven o'clock he found time to stop at the village haberdasher 's and to select a new tie , which he had wrapped and stuffed in his pocket . And which , inspected in broad day later on a country road , gave him uneasy qualms as to its brilliance . At the luncheon table he was almost hilarious , and David played up to him , albeit rather heavily . But Lucy was thoughtful and quiet .