five minutes past eleven
` No , in the park . It will be nicer in the park . Then about eleven . ' At five minutes past eleven he saw her coming through the trees , and she signed to him with a little movement of her parasol , which was particularly charming , and which seemed to him to express her . They walked from the bridge along the western bank ; the trees were prettier there , and from their favourite seat they saw the morning light silver the water , the light mist evaporate , and the trees on the other bank emerge from vague masses into individualities of trunk and bough . The day was warm , though there was little sun , and the park swung a great mass of greenery under a soft , grey sky . The drake and the two ducks came swimming towards them -- the drake , of course , in the middle , looking very handsome and pleased , and at a little distance the third duck pursued her rejected and disconsolate courtship .