eleven o'clock
answered Dick airily ; `` it was sleep , right enough ; nothing in the nature of swoon about it , if that is what you mean . But now , what about those lions ? My patient will sleep for several hours to come , and I can quite well leave him . It is now , '' -- consulting his watch -- `` only a few minutes past eleven o'clock , and we ought to be able to organise the hunt and bag the beasts comfortably before tiffin . Are you game ? '' `` You bet I am , rather ! '' responded Grosvenor .