eleven o'clock
Soon after Mrs. Frost had left the breakfast-room and Tom had started forth with horse and sleigh , Dan returned . The Marquis promptly reminded him of the suggestion that he should be taken over the Inn . It seemed to Dan an uninteresting way to entertain his guest and the morning was a busy one . However , he promised to be ready at eleven o'clock to show the Marquis all there was in the old house . As Dan went about the offices and stables , performing himself much of the work that in prosperous times fell to grooms and hostlers , he found himself thinking about his new guest . Dan knew enough of French history to be aware there were frequent occasions in France when partisans of the various factions , royalist , imperialist , or republican , found it best to expatriate themselves . He knew that in times past many of the most distinguished exiles had found asylum in America .