nearly eleven o'clock
It was as though she were asking who had dared to break in so rudely upon her pastime . Jeanne had sunk back into the window , and was sitting there , her hands clasped together . Cecil de la Borne glanced at the clock . `` It is nearly eleven o'clock , '' he said . `` The servants will have gone to bed . I must go and see who that is . '' No one attempted to stop him .