nearly eleven o'clock
`` Well now , run along and get home , '' finished the doctor cheerily , `` and look out for that plucky little friend of yours , and I 'll try and find out , too , about that brakeman , and we 'll talk the thing over . '' So Polly and Jasper raced back again down over the platform , clambered into the carriage , and away they went home to Grandpapa and Mamsie ! And Alexia and her aunt staid all night . And after the whole story had been gone over and over , and Grandpapa had held Polly on his knee , all the time she was not in Mamsie 's lap , and Alexia had had her poor arm taken care of , and all bandaged up , Dr. Fisher praising her for being so cool and patient , why then it was nearly eleven o'clock . `` Dear me ! Polly , '' cried Mother Fisher in dismay , looking over at the clock -- they were all in the library , and all visitors had been denied -- `` the very idea ! you children must get to bed . ''