about eleven o’clock
-- Page 126 . The first thing to be done was to buy the parlor carpets . Elizabeth Eliza had already looked at some in Boston , and the next morning she went , by an early train , with her father , Agamemnon , and Solomon John , to decide upon them . They got home about eleven o'clock , and when they reached the house were dismayed to find two furniture wagons in front of the gate , already partly filled ! Mrs. Peterkin was walking in and out of the open door , a large book in one hand , and a duster in the other , and she came to meet them in an agony of anxiety . What should they do ? The furniture carts had appeared soon after the rest had left for Boston , and the men had insisted upon beginning to move the things .