eleven o'clock
But how did that help her now , when the armor must be laid aside ? Sometime or other she must turn out that light and lie down in that bed , defenseless . She had never in her life asked more of her courage than when , at last , she did that thing . There were nine hours then ahead of her before eleven o'clock and the next rehearsal . Rose rehearsed twice a day for a solid week without forming the faintest conception of who `` the girl '' was or why she was `` the girl up-stairs . '' She did n't know what sort of scene it was for instance that they burst in on through the space marked by two of the little folding chairs brought up from the floor of the dance-hall for the purpose . The group of iron tables borrowed from the bar and set solidly together in the upper right-hand corner of the stage whenever they rehearsed a certain one of their song numbers , might with equal plausibility represent a mountain in Arizona , the front veranda of a house or a banquet table in the gilded dining-hall of some licentious multi-millionaire .