eleven
o'clock
O'Brien was impossible . His trade was too overwhelming to be left in the hands of a mere bartender , but there was less excuse for Billy Unguin and Allan Dy , who were merely drinkers in the place . She possessed herself of their persons and marched them off , and gathered up two or three women friends of hers on the way home . Thus , by eleven o'clock , she had the door of her parlor closed upon a more or less efficient quorum . Then she sat her bulk down with a sigh of enforced content . Her florid face was beaded with perspiration as a result of her efforts . She turned autocratically to her secretary .