nine o'clock
The Cambridge team was published in the papers on the Monday , but some one told me that our committee were not meeting until the Monday evening . This did not interest me much , for apart from wanting to see that Fred had got his blue , and I thought he was a certainty , I did not mind who else was chosen . Sykes had played better against the O. C.s than he had ever done before , and even Fred said that he was afraid my chance had gone for this year . After dinner on Monday evening I was sitting in my rooms with Murray , and although it was not nine o'clock , I was wondering how soon I could go to bed , when Ward suddenly burst in , fairly bubbling over with excitement . He turned me right out of my chair , and hitting me violently on the back , said he had never been so awfully glad in all his life . My first impression was that he had been made glad by wine , and I told him to clear out if he could not behave himself , which made him catch hold of me and dance me round the room . By the time we had finished I found that Dennison , Collier , Lambert , Webb and a host of other people had come to my rooms , and at last I discovered that I had got my blue .