Ten o'clock
The disposition to do so , however , only came by fits and starts . In another respect , too , he was like a great many other boys -- ay , and girls , too -- and that was -- he would often go to a great deal more pains to avoid a difficulty than it would have caused him by boldly facing it . So true is the proverb that lazy people often take most pains . Ten o'clock ! Paul looked from his bed . There was the bed in which Stanley ought to have been sleeping -- empty ! Next to that , Waterman .