nearly 11 o'clock
I want to talk to you about that very thing . '' Dr. Dennis was not given to making long calls on his parishioners ; there were too many of them , and he had too little time ; but he made an unprecedentedly long one on Marion Wilbur . When she went back to her room that night , the fire was gone out utterly ; not even a smoke remained . She lighted her smoky little lamp -- there was no gas in the third story -- and looked at her watch with an amazed air ; she had not imagined that it could be nearly 11 o'clock ! Then she pushed the reports into a drawer and turned the key ; no use to attempt reports for that evening . As she picked up her class-book , the scribbling on the fly-leaf caught her eye again . She smiled a rare , rich , happy smile ; then swiftly she drew her pencil and added one more name to the line .