Ten minutes to eleven
`` For a purpose . Keep it in your pocket ; it may serve to protect you . '' `` What time is it , Doctor ? '' `` Ten minutes to eleven . '' `` I must go . '' He said no word ; but he put up his hands to my face , and made me bend to him , and kissed me . * * * * * Before midnight one of General Morell 's orderlies had passed me through our cavalry pickets beyond Mechanicsville .