Eleven o'clock
Your reasoning appeared to me to be too peremptory , that is all . '' `` In what way , if you please , I am curious to know ? '' `` It would take too long to tell you . Eleven o'clock is striking . I will content myself with offering you a bet . Your copy of Pliny against my Quintilian , that you have not judged rightly , and that the child is not Irish . '' `` You know that I do not like to bet , '' said the doctor , softened by his unconquerable good humor .