eleven o'clock
`` Oh , we do n't mind , '' the two girls protested . `` I suppose we can pay the fine and they will let us go at once . '' Hugh said nothing , for he knew that he had only a few dollars in his pocket . When Ruth 's car finally reached the station house it was almost eleven o'clock . The policeman took the automobile party inside the station . It was bitter cold in the room , for the winter chill had fallen with the close of the December day . The fire had died out in the air-tight iron stove in the room , and Mollie , Ruth and Grace could hardly keep from shivering .