about eleven o'clock
His wife disengaged her hand and extended it to me . `` Thank you , '' she said , in a queer little silver-bell voice ; `` you are good . I shall always love you . '' It must have been about eleven o'clock that night when Paul Harley rang me up . Since we had parted in the early morning I had had no word from him , and I was all anxiety to tell him of the quaint little romance which unknown to us had had its setting in the room above . In accordance with my promise I had seen the chief officer of the Patna ; and from the start of surprise which he gave on opening `` Captain Dan 's '' letter , I judged that Mr. Marryat and the man who for so long had sunk to the lowest rung of the ladder had been close friends in those `` old days . '' At any rate , he had proceeded to make the necessary arrangements without a moment 's delay , and the couple were to go on board the Patna at nine o'clock .