night, about eleven o'clock
This by the way . It is now the end of November . My story relates to what happened in the first week of the month . It was night , about eleven o'clock . Pepper and I kept one another company in the study -- that great , old room of mine , where I read and work . I was reading , curiously enough , the Bible . I have begun , in these later days , to take a growing interest in that great and ancient book .