eleven o'clock
`` Mr. Carter is my friend ! '' she flung at him as he passed her and went out into the hall . Another night of anguish brought Michael face to face with the necessity for an interview with Starr 's mother . Taking his cue from the hour Starr had set for his call , he went a little before eleven o'clock and sent up the card of the firm with his own name written below ; for he had very serious doubts of obtaining an interview at all if the lady thought he might be there on his own business . It is doubtful whether Mrs. Endicott recognized the former `` Mikky '' under the title written below his most respectable law firm 's name . Any representative of Holt and Holt was to be recognized of course . She came down within a half hour , quite graciously with lorgnette in her hand , until she had reached the centre of the reception room where he had been put to await her .