eleven o'clock
Georgina was following to ask questions about the expected guests . She liked the gruesome sound of that term `` blood relations '' as Tippy used it , and wanted to know all about this recently discovered `` in-law , '' the widow of her grandfather 's cousin , Thomas Huntingdon . Barby could not tell her and Mrs. Triplett , too busy to be bothered , set her down to turn the leaves of the family album . But the photograph of Cousin Mehitable had been taken when she was a boarding-school miss in a disfiguring hat and basque , and bore little resemblance to the imposing personage who headed the procession of visitors , arriving promptly at eleven o'clock . When Cousin Mehitable came into the room in her widow 's bonnet with the long black veil hanging down behind , she seemed to fill the place as the massive black walnut wardrobe upstairs filled the alcove . She lifted her eyeglasses from the hook on her dress to her hooked nose to look at Georgina before she kissed her . Under that gaze the child felt as awed as if the big wardrobe had bent over and put a wooden kiss on her forehead and said in a deep , whispery sort of voice , `` So this is the Judge 's grand-daughter .