about eleven
o'clock
he has to leave his sweetheart . It 's a sad business , but it 's the best thing for him , and you 'll see he 'll go . '' Tom was right . Poor Harry came in and dried his clothes , and got his supper ; and while he was eating it , and all along the road afterwards , till they reached the station at about eleven o'clock , pleaded in his plain way with Tom against leaving his own country side . And East listened silently , and liked him better and better . Tom argued with him gently , and turned the matter round on all sides , putting the most hopeful face upon it ; and , in the end , talked first himself and then Harry into the belief that it was the best thing that could have happened to him , and more likely than any other course of action to bring everything right between him and all the folk at Englebourn . So they got into the train at Steventon in pretty good heart , with his fare paid , and half-a-sovereign in his pocket , more and more impressed in his mind with what a wonderful thing it was to be `` a schollard . ''