about eleven o'clock
Dorian Gray had been poisoned by a book . There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful . -LSB- ... 77 -RSB- It was on the 7th of November , the eve of his own thirty-second birthday , as he often remembered afterwards . He was walking home about eleven o'clock from Lord Henry 's , where he had been dining , and was wrapped in heavy furs , as the night was cold and foggy . At the corner of Grosvenor Square and South Audley Street a man passed him in the mist , walking very fast , and with the collar of his gray ulster turned up . He had a bag in his hand . He recognized him .