eleven o'clock
It 's wonderful what a crop of twelfth men there are kicking around ; you may just as well say you are a liar smack out , as tell any one you are a twelfth man . '' I told him that I believed him . `` That 's only your politeness , '' he went on ; `` in a week you will be talking about me as ` that man Ward who says he was twelfth man at Wellingham . ' '' I sat in his rooms and listened to him talking until eleven o'clock ; for almost the first time in my life I had nothing to say , and that must have been the reason why I felt amused and uncomfortable at the same time . He seemed to know all sorts of people , and he spoke of them by their Christian names , which impressed me , and he referred to London as a place well enough to stay in for a time , but a terrible bore when one got accustomed to it . Now I had only been to London three times , and one of those could hardly be said to count since it was to see a dentist . As I went back to my rooms , I thought that my education had been neglected in many ways , and that Ward had been having a much better time than I had .