eleven o'clock
When he left the house , I turned to Elizabeth , and -- `` Now , Betty , hinny , '' says I , `` tak my advice , as yer faither and yer freend , and ne'er speak to that young man again , nor alloo him to keep ye company ; for , as sure as my name is Reuben , there is something essentially bad aboot him . '' She hung her head , and there was a tear in her ee , and I think for the first time ever I had observed it in my days , she looked rather sulky ; but I could get no satisfaction from her . I think it was between two and three months after this -- during which time I had seen and heard no more of the fashionable Charles Austin -- that , having business to transact in Liverpool , I took Priscilla down with me in the gig , for the benefit of her health . It was in the summer season , and eleven o'clock had just chimed from the steeple of the collegiate church before we returned at night . But never , never shall I forget our miserable home-coming . There was our poor Rachel , sitting by herself , wringing her hands , and the tears running down her bonny cheeks . `` Rachel !