nearly eleven o’clock
`` How long has this been going on ? '' `` About a week , sir . I noticed it first last time I had my day out . I did n't get in until nearly eleven o'clock , and I found her sitting at the table havin ' supper and talkin ' and laughin ' like as though there was folks around . '' `` She was entirely alone , was she ? '' asked Thaddeus . `` Yes , sir . ''