ten o'clock
Finally I leavened the lot with a pound of the best white pepper -- to discourage the moths , my fellow , to discourage the moths . '' His tone suggesting the discomfiture of the wicked , the Sealyham barked his applause . `` Quite so . Well , I locked the case up and corded it , and precisely at ten o'clock I retired to bed . `` I never remember feeling so full of beans as I did the next morning . I could have bluffed my way across Europe with a barrel of whiskey on a lead . I felt ready for anything .