a quarter to ten
At this Lenehan said that he had been with Mac the night before in Egan 's . The young man who had seen Mac in Westmoreland Street asked was it true that Mac had won a bit over a billiard match . Lenehan did not know : he said that Holohan had stood them drinks in Egan 's . He left his friends at a quarter to ten and went up George 's Street . He turned to the left at the City Markets and walked on into Grafton Street . The crowd of girls and young men had thinned and on his way up the street he heard many groups and couples bidding one another good-night . He went as far as the clock of the College of Surgeons : it was on the stroke of ten .