eleven o'clock
`` They must eat , Kink , do n't forget . Never mind what they say ; make them eat sensibly . '' To the stores Mrs. Avory herself added a number of tongues and a good deal of plain chocolate . The day for Kink 's departure -- at least three days before the others were to leave -- at last arrived , and by eleven o'clock everything was ready : Kink was seated on the shafts , with the reins in one hand , and in the other an ancient map of the road from London to Oxford , which Robert had found in one of his father 's Road Books , of which there were many in the library , and had carefully traced . It was called _ Britannia Depicta ; _ OR , _ `` Ogilby '' Improved , _ 1753 , and , so that you may see what kind of help Kink was offered , I have had the map reproduced here . Kink , I may say , having some difficulty in reading even the plain print of the morning paper , held the tracing in his hand only so far as he was in sight . He then folded it up and placed it in his pocket , and when he was in any doubt as to the way , asked the first person he met .