eleven
o'clock before
Mamma received the invitation like an accolade . Truly that ten thousand dollars might well have remained in bank , subject to personal check ... . The little dinner , with its air of everything being all settled , was a huge success ; a bit too huge to Hugo 's way of thinking . It was eleven o'clock before he really had a word with Carlisle . `` It began to look like a house-party , '' said he ... . They were alone now in the drawing-room at home , a room whose dim beautiful lights made it look always at its best at night . Mamma had just gone up .