about
eleven o'clock
Somehow I could not shake off the feeling of irritability that my quarrel with Dulcie during the afternoon had created . `` Naturally , because I have n't yet come to the theory part , '' Dulcie answered sharply , noticing the tone in which I spoke . `` I am coming to it now . Churchill says he happened to come along that drive between about eleven o'clock and half-past on the morning of the meet -- that would be just about the time when everybody was at the breakfast -- and he distinctly remembers seeing a car drawn up close to the shrubbery . There was nobody in it , he says , but as far as he can recollect it was drawn up at the exact spot where he found the buckle this afternoon . Of course , there was no snow on the ground then . '' `` Has he any idea what the car was like ? ''