eleven o'clock at
night
`` So and so much for an inspection trip to Megilp and return . I must tell Kent about it . It will put another shovelful of coal into his furnace -- not that he is especially needing it . '' * * * * * At the moment of this saying -- it was between ten and eleven o'clock at night -- David Kent 's wrath-fire was far from needing an additional stoking . Once more Miss Van Brock had given proof of her prophetic gift , and Kent had been moodily filling in the details of the picture drawn by her woman 's intuition . He had gone late to the house in Alameda Square , knowing that Portia had dinner guests . And it was imperative that he should have her to himself .