eleven o'clock
`` Whatever I should have done without Miss Lily I do n't know ! '' she used to exclaim afterwards . Even Maud was beyond praise . It seemed to be the middle of the night when Dr. Stirling came back , but it was barely eleven o'clock , and people were only just returning from Hanbridge Theatre and Hanbridge Music Hall . The use of the electrical apparatus was a dead spectacle . Sophia 's inertness under it was agonizing . They waited , as it were , breathless for the result .