eleven o'clock in the
morning
It was pale indeed , but as expressionless and commonplace as ever . I had expected some permanent alteration -- visible evidence of the disease that was eating me away . I found nothing . On the 15th of May I left Heatherlegh 's house at eleven o'clock in the morning ; and the instinct of the bachelor drove me to the Club . There I found that every man knew my story as told by Heatherlegh , and was , in clumsy fashion , abnormally kind and attentive . Nevertheless I recognized that for the rest of my natural life I should be among but not of my fellows ; and I envied very bitterly indeed the laughing coolies on the Mall below . I lunched at the Club , and at four o'clock wandered aimlessly down the Mall in the vague hope of meeting Kitty .