nearly eleven
o'clock
She said that eating a parsley leaf on which bits of snow were sticking started the child in her . It might just as well -- '' Alvina would laugh and get tired . There was about her a kind of half bitter sanity and nonchalance which the nervous woman liked . One night as they were sitting thus in the bedroom , at nearly eleven o'clock , they started and listened . Dogs in the distance had also started to yelp . A mandoline was wailing its vibration in the night outside , rapidly , delicately quivering . Alvina went pale .