About ten o'clock
It is more late than I thought . Come , let us seek somewhere that we may eat , and then we shall go on our way . '' We dined at `` Jack Straw 's Castle '' along with a little crowd of bicyclists and others who were genially noisy . About ten o'clock we started from the inn . It was then very dark , and the scattered lamps made the darkness greater when we were once outside their individual radius . The Professor had evidently noted the road we were to go , for he went on unhesitatingly ; but , as for me , I was in quite a mixup as to locality . As we went further , we met fewer and fewer people , till at last we were somewhat surprised when we met even the patrol of horse police going their usual suburban round .