eleven o'clock
A new world opened out to Mr. Korner ; a world where lovely women worshipped with doglike devotion men who , though loving them in return , knew how to be their masters . Mr. Korner , warmed gradually from cold disapproval to bubbling appreciation , sat entranced . Time alone set a limit to the recital of the mate 's adventures . At eleven o'clock the cook reminded them that the captain and the pilot might be aboard at any moment . Mr. Korner , surprised at the lateness of the hour , took a long and tender farewell of his cousin , and found St. Katherine 's Docks one of the most bewildering places out of which he had ever tried to escape . Under a lamp-post in the Minories , it suddenly occurred to Mr. Korner that he was an unappreciated man . Mrs. Korner never said and did the sort of things by means of which the beauties of the Southern Main endeavoured feebly to express their consuming passion for gentlemen superior in no way -- as far as he could see -- to Mr. Korner himself .