about eleven
o’clock
` If you will kindly hear reason , Mr Racksole , ' said Dimmock in his best diplomatic manner , ` I will endeavour to explain things to you . I regarded your first question to me when you entered my room as being offensively put , but I now see that you had some justification . ' He smiled politely . ` I was passing along this corridor about eleven o'clock , when I found Miss Racksole in a difficulty with the hotel servants . Miss Racksole was retiring to rest in this room when a large stone , which must have been thrown from the Embankment , broke the window , as you see . Apart from the discomfort of the broken window , she did not care to remain in the room . She argued that where one stone had come another might follow .