about eleven o'clock
Yes , father , I may be smart now . There were moments in which I thought that I might never wear more the pretty things which he had given me . ' Then she rose from her seat again , and hung on his neck , and wept and sobbed till he feared that her heart-strings would break with joy . So the morning passed away among them till about eleven o'clock , when the servant brought in word that Mr. Holt and one or two other of the tenants wanted to see the young master . The squire had been sitting alone in the back room so that the husband and wife might be left together ; but he had heard voices with which he was familiar , and he now came through to ask Hester whether the visitors should be sent away for the present . But Hester would not have turned a dog from the door which had been true to her husband through his troubles . ` Let them come , ' she said .