ten o'clock
So your father would , no doubt , have changed his things in the town , and have walked quietly back again . `` He had volunteered into the national guard , when I came last through Dijon ; and was hard at work , drilling them . Of course , he had his old rank of captain . '' At ten o'clock the boys said that they would go for a stroll , before lying down for the night . They were out upwards of an hour ; and returned , at the end of that time , with serious but resolved faces . The colonel was out , when they returned ; and found them stretched on the sofa and hearth rug , when he came in . They gave him a sleepy good night , and no other word was exchanged .