eleven o'clock at night
And he 'll bear watching for another reason -- I 'm almost certain that it was his voice I heard in the Jew 's back room . Benjamin and Company , like charity , may cover a multitude of sins . Nevill was going a rapid pace when he was abroad , and he could n't well have kept it up all these years on his legacy . '' * * * * * It was eleven o'clock at night , and the theatres were pouring their audiences from pit and stalls , galleries and boxes , into the crowded , tumultuous , clamoring Strand , blazing and flashing like a vast , long furnace , echoing to the roar of raucous throats , and throbbing to the rumble of an endless invasion of cabs and private carriages . A fascinating scene , and one of the most interesting that London can show . The uniformed commissionaire of the Ambiguity , reading the wishes of a lady and gentleman who pressed across the pavement to the curb , promptly claimed a hansom and opened the door . Stephen Foster helped his daughter into it and followed her .