nine o'clock
Morning school at Wrykyn started at nine o'clock . At that hour there was a call-over in each of the form-rooms . After call-over the forms proceeded to the Great Hall for prayers . A strangely desolate feeling was in the air at nine o'clock on the Friday morning . Sit in the grounds of a public school any afternoon in the summer holidays , and you will get exactly the same sensation of being alone in the world as came to the dozen or so day-boys who bicycled through the gates that morning . Wrykyn was a boarding-school for the most part , but it had its leaven of day-boys . The majority of these lived in the town , and walked to school .