nearly eleven o'clock
`` I suppose we must go and see these blessed dons . They want to see us at half-past ten , do n't they ? '' he said . I looked at my watch and found that it was nearly eleven o'clock , so we bolted down-stairs and across the quadrangle as hard as we could . It was a very bad start but I had completely forgotten that we had to go to the hall at half-past ten , and Ward gave me no comfort by saying that he did not suppose it mattered when we went as long as we turned up some time . Dons would have to be very different from masters if that was the case , and as I imagined that they would be of much the same breed only glorified , I had no wish to begin by making them angry . There were thirty or forty freshers in the hall when we got there , and a few dons sitting at the high table at the end of it .