eight o'clock
Do n't think that I am changed . Do n't be unhappy , or I do n't know what I may do . '' There was no address and no signature to the note . When the gates opened he hurried out of the college and , having left it and a shilling with Dick -LRB- whom he found cleaning the yard , and much astonished at his appearance , and who promised to deliver it to Patty with his own hands before eight o'clock -RRB- , he got back again to his own rooms , went to bed , worn out in mind and body , and slept till mid-day . My readers have now been steadily at Oxford for six months without moving . Most people find such a spell of the place without a change quite as much as they care to take ; perhaps too , it may do our hero good to let him alone for a little , that he may have time to look steadily into the pit which he has been so near falling down , which is still yawning awkwardly in his path ; moreover , the exigencies of a story teller must lead him away from home now and then . Like the rest of us , his family must have change of air , or he has to go off to see a friend properly married , or a connexion buried ; to wear white or black gloves with or for some one , carrying such sympathy as he can with him , so that he may come back from every journey , however short , with a wider horizon .