Nine o'clock
Just now the eternal misery seemed inevitable , no matter what I did . Johnson cleared the table and left me alone in the library . The hours passed . Nine o'clock came , then nine-thirty . It was almost time for the stock market to open . My thoughts , which had been diverted from my rash plunge into the intricacies of high finance , began to return to it . As ten o'clock drew near , I began to realize what I had bade Davis do , and to think what might happen because of it .