eleven o'clock
That was Tam 's advice , you know . '' `` Him and his advice ! '' said Gourlay . There were only four other passengers dropped by the eleven o'clock express at Skeighan station , and , as it happened , young Gourlay knew them all . They were petty merchants of the neighbourhood whom he had often seen about Barbie . The sight of their remembered faces as he stepped on to the platform gave him a delightful sense that he was nearing home . He had passed from the careless world where he was nobody at all to the familiar circle where he was a somebody , a mentioned man , and the son of a mentioned man -- young Mr. Gourlay !