ten o'clock
He had tapped the real Christminster life . A band was playing , and the crowd walked about and jostled each other , and every now and then a man got upon a platform and sang a comic song . The spirit of Sue seemed to hover round him and prevent his flirting and drinking with the frolicsome girls who made advances -- wistful to gain a little joy . At ten o'clock he came away , choosing a circuitous route homeward to pass the gates of the college whose head had just sent him the note . The gates were shut , and , by an impulse , he took from his pocket the lump of chalk which as a workman he usually carried there , and wrote along the wall : '' _ I have understanding as well as you ; I am not inferior to you : yea , who knoweth not such things as these ? _ '' -- Job xii . 3 .