eleven o’clock
`` We shall soon be writing the half-term reports , '' said Mr. Whitehead . `` You 've all been doing well , especially old Polly : you can put that in your letter , '' he said to Hart Minor . `` I 'm very much pleased with you , '' and he chuckled . On Monday morning at eleven o'clock was reading over . When the fourth division were called up , the Head Master paused , looked down the page , then at the boys , then at the book once more ; then he frowned . There was a second pause , then he read out in icy tones : -- `` I 'm sorry to say that Smith and Hart Minor have been found guilty of gross dishonesty ; they combined -- in fact they entered into a conspiracy , to cheat , to steal marks and obtain by unfair means , a higher place and an advantage which was not due to them . '' The Head Master paused .