Ten o'clock
It was a call to service , an inspiration to activity , and it had already filled him with the determination to fall into step with the movement of the world , to put the money of which he was now the most reluctant owner to some use as soon as the necessary legal steps of proving his father 's Will had been taken . He had made up his mind to leave the countryside at the end of the week and meet his father 's lawyers and take advice as to how he could hitch himself to some vigorous and operative pursuit . He was going , please God , to build up a workmanlike monument to the memory of his father . Ten o'clock struck , and uninterested in his book , he would have gone to bed but for the growing feeling that he was not his own master , that he might be required at any moment . The feeling became so strong that finally he got up and went into the hall . He could n't wait any longer . He must go out , slip into the garden of the Ludlow house and search the windows for a sight of Joan .