six o'clock
`` Dashed if I do n't give the wench a fiver ! '' he exclaimed . It was madness , but he had an obscure feeling that he might have had more amusement if he had begun being mad rather earlier in life . Upon this he slept soundly till six o'clock . His mind then unfortunately got entangled in the painful episode of the ten-pound note . He and Helen had the same blood in their veins . They were alike in some essential traits .