eight o'clock
He went off up the ` ill shaking his ` ead , and Sam 's pal , arter watching him for a few seconds , said good-bye in a hurry and went off arter ` im to tell him to keep ` is mouth shut about it . Sam walked back to his lodgings on air , as the saying is , and even did a little bit of a skirt-dance to a pianner-organ wot was playing . Peter and Ginger was out , and so was his land-lady , a respectable woman as was minding the rest of ` is money for him , and when he asked ` er little gal , a kid of eleven , to trust ` im for some tin she gave ` im a lecture on wasting his money instead wot took ` is breath away -- all but a word or two . He got some of ` is money from his landlady at eight o'clock , arter listening to ` er for ` arf an hour , and then he ` ad to pick it up off of the floor , and say `` Thank you '' for it . He went to bed afore Ginger and Peter came in , but ' e was so excited he could n't sleep , and long arter they was in bed he laid there and thought of all the different ways of spending a ` undred pounds . He kept taking the locket from under ` is piller and feeling it ; then he felt ' e must ` ave another look at it , and arter coughing ` ard two or three times and calling out to the other two not to snore -- to see if they was awake -- he got out o ' bed and lit the candle . Ginger and Peter was both fast asleep , with their eyes screwed up and their mouths wide open , and ' e sat on the bed and looked at the locket until he was a ` most dazzled . ''