Eleven o'clock
... Thus for half-an-hour queried the man from America . He was about to turn into the house , when he glanced once more in the direction of the stables . It was too dark to distinguish anything , but there was the glow from Mathews 's pipe as it faintly lit the surrounding darkness . Eleven o'clock . ` Austin . ' He had been sitting in the library talking to Lord Durwent , but the latter had just left the room to answer a phone-call from London . Elise , who had been playing the gramophone in the music-room , shut the instrument off and hurried to the American 's side .