eleven o'clock
Therefore , no assistance can be looked for from him . Dinner at the castle has been a promiscuous sort of entertainment for the past three or four days , so Dora feels no compunction in declining to go to it . In her own room she sits brooding miserably over her inability to be of any use in the present crisis , when she suddenly remembers that she had promised in the afternoon when with Florence to give her , later on , an account of her effort to obtain the truth about this mystery which is harrowing them . It is now eleven o'clock , and Dora decides that she must see Florence at once . Rising , wearily , she is about to cross the corridor to her cousin 's room , when , the door opening , she sees Florence , with a face pale and agitated , coming toward her . `` You , Florence ! '' she exclaims .