eleven o'clock
All your trouble , we shall leave it behind us to-morrow , and every hour will take us further from it . '' With this practical view of matters , she kissed Zoe and hurried to bed . But Zoe scarcely closed her eyes all night . Severne did not reach the hotel till past eleven o'clock , and went straight to his own room . ASHMEAD accompanied Mademoiselle Klosking to her apartment . It was lighted , and the cloth laid for supper under the chandelier , a snow-white Hamburg damask . Ashmead took the winnings out of his pocket , and proudly piled the gold and crumpled notes in one prodigious mass upon the linen , that shone like satin , and made the gold look doubly inviting .