eleven o'clock
said Lady Latimer with half-contemptuous resignation . `` Come to dinner now : we will read your hero 's story afterward . '' Lady Latimer 's personal interests were so few that it was a necessity for her generous soul to adopt the interests of other people . She kept Bessie reading until eleven o'clock , when she was dismissed to bed and ordered to leave the manuscript below , lest she should sit up and read it when she ought to be asleep . But what Bessie might not do my lady was quite at liberty to do herself , and she made an end of the tale before she retired . And not only that . She wrote to Mr. Logger to recommend a publisher , and to ask how proper payment could be assured to a young and unknown author .