eleven o'clock
`` I wish your brother every good luck , Helen , and I hope he 'll be worthy of his father . Some time -- '' `` Robert , there 's that old colored man in the doorway again , old Grice -- he is surely beckoning to you -- I wonder if he has ` disregarded ' with his wife again about religion . Go and see what he wants and come back and tell me about it . '' It was now nearing eleven o'clock . In their talk Robert and Helen had walked several times around the room , so engrossed with each other that they paid but little attention to the beautiful music and none to the happy throng of young people gliding over the floor . Robert looked with annoyance at Grice . The latter was now gesticulating frantically at him through the open doorway .