nearly eleven o'clock
By ten o'clock Nurse Kennedy had so far recovered that she was able to sit up and talk intelligibly . But she was still hazy in her thoughts ; and could not remember anything that had happened on the previous night , after her taking her place by the sick-bed . As yet she seemed neither to know nor care what had happened . It was nearly eleven o'clock when Doctor Winchester returned with Sir James Frere . Somehow I felt my heart sink when from the landing I saw them in the hall below ; I knew that Miss Trelawny was to have the pain of telling yet another stranger of her ignorance of her father 's life . Sir James Frere was a man who commanded attention followed by respect . He knew so thoroughly what he wanted himself , that he placed at once on one side all wishes and ideas of less definite persons .