eleven o'clock
It 's funny how mean , spiteful folks can make other people the same way . Right now , I 'd rather have this Long man come out here and take me to meeting where Carrie could see it than to do a kind deed of any sort . '' After this , to Henley 's mystification , she did not talk as freely as at the outset , and she seemed to be very thoughtful . As they were driving into the bustling town , she looked at him fixedly and said : `` The papers say the programme do n't begin till eleven o'clock . That 's the hour set for the first race with the reel-wagons . I was just wondering what we 'd better do to kill time till then . I hai n't got a thing to buy that you hai n't got in your stock at home , and I hai n't a person to go in and nose about and have clerks pull down a whole raft of bolts and boxes without paying for the trouble .