eleven o'clock
`` Ah , I do n't hurt 'em and they like it . And so long as your whisky hamestrings you and my girls give me what I need in my business -- do n't talk to me . '' Tom Van Dorn left Fenn at his mother 's door and as Fenn saw his friend turn toward the south he called , `` Are n't you going to your room ? '' `` Why , it 's only eleven o'clock , '' answered Van Dorn . To the inquiring silence Van Dorn called , `` I 'm going down to see Lizzie . '' Henry Fenn stood looking at his friend , who explained : `` That 's all right . I said I 'd be down to-night and she 'll wait . ''