about eleven o'clock
If the Millennium had arrived , the members of the Primrose Way Company could not have been on better terms with themselves . The lethargy and dispiritedness , caused by their week of inaction , fell from them like a cloak . The sudden elevation of that creature of the abyss , the assistant stage manager , to the dizzy height of proprietor of the show appealed to their sense of drama . Most of them had played in pieces where much the same thing had happened to the persecuted heroine round about eleven o'clock , and the situation struck them as theatrically sound . Also , now that she had gone , the extent to which Miss Hobson had acted as a blight was universally recognized . A spirit of optimism reigned , and cheerful rumours became current . The bowler-hatted Teddy had it straight from the lift-boy at his hotel that the ban on the theatres was to be lifted on Tuesday at the latest ; while no less an authority than the cigar-stand girl at the Pontchatrain had informed the man who played the butler that Toledo and Cleveland were opening to-morrow .