eleven o’clock
Your position does n't allow anything of the kind . ' ` All right , ' said Richard , his ill-humour gone ; ` I 'll see to it . ' He was not able , after all , to catch the early train by which he had meant to take his brother to Wanley . He did not like to leave without some kind of good-bye to his mother , and Alice said that the old woman would not be ready to go before eleven o'clock . After half an hour of restlessness he sat down to answer Daniel 's letter . Keene 's flattery had not been without its fruit . From anger which had in it an element of apprehension he passed to an arrogant self-confidence which character and circumstances were conspiring to make his habitual mood .