eleven o'clock
`` I have a great desire to add that to the already large number of my accomplishments . '' Miss Betty was a very lively , in fact , quite wild , young lady , whose great desire was for fun and frolic ; to have , as she expressed it , `` a jolly good time '' wherever she went . The captain drew out his watch . `` About time to don the bathing-suits , '' he said ; `` I understand that eleven o'clock is the hour , and it wants but fifteen minutes of it . '' Grandma Elsie had kindly seen to it that each little girl -- that is , Captain Raymond 's two and her own Rosie -- was provided with a pretty , neatly-fitting , and becoming bathing dress . Violet helped Lulu to put her 's on , and , surveying her with a smile of gratified motherly pride , told her she looked very well in it , and that she hoped she would enjoy her bath . `` Thank you , '' said Lulu ; `` but why do n't you go in too , Mamma Vi ? ''