about eleven o'clock
He went by me so near that I could hear his quick breathing from his run upstairs ; and he had come in such a hurry that he had only one shoe on , and on the other foot a slipper . He went very near at a run up the lobby , and up a step or two , and into the great antechamber and so round to the Bedchamber ; and I presently heard him enter it . Indeed I was very favourably placed for observing all that went on . * * * * * It was about eleven o'clock , as I suppose , when I first heard His Majesty 's voice ; and the relief of it to me was extraordinary . I had ventured up the stair or two that led from this room into the Bedchamber , and had , very delicately , opened the door a crack so as to hear more plainly ; but I dared not look through for fear that I should be seen . For a long while I had heard nothing but whispers ; and once the yapping of a little dog , very sharp and startling , but the noise was stifled almost immediately , and the dog , I suppose , taken out at the other door . Once or twice too had come the sudden chiming of all the clocks that were in the Bedchamber .