Eleven o’clock
The lights on the kiosk on the quay went out . Mrs. Clarke was startled by the leaping up of the darkness which seemed to come from the sea . For her ears had been closed against the band , and she had forgotten the limit she had mentally put to her indecision . Eleven o'clock already ! She got up from her seat . But still she hesitated . She did not know what she was going to do .