eleven o’clock
So she had the ladder put to the trap-door that he need not go out in the wet , and Gregory with the broom and duster mounted to the loft . Once at work he worked hard . He dusted down the very rafters , and cleaned the broken candle-moulds and bent forks that had stuck in the thatch for twenty years . He placed the black bottles neatly in rows on an old box in the corner , and piled the skins on one another , and sorted the rubbish in all the boxes ; and at eleven o'clock his work was almost done . He seated himself on the packing-case which had once held Waldo 's books , and proceeded to examine the contents of another which he had not yet looked at . It was carelessly nailed down . He loosened one plank , and began to lift out various articles of female attire -- old-fashioned caps , aprons , dresses with long pointed bodies such as he remembered to have seen his mother wear when he was a little child .