about ten in the morning
He did not return to the college till long past midnight ; and the old porter , as he got out of bed to open the gate , could not help saying to him in a tone of reproach -- `` Oh , Mr Kennedy , sir -- excuse me , sir -- but these are bad ways . '' The words were lost upon him : he went up to his room , and threw himself , without taking off his clothes , upon his bed . No sleep came to him , and in the morning -- damp , weary , and feverish as he had been -- his look was inexpressibly pitiable and haggard . The imperious demands of health forced him to take some notice of his condition ; and he was about to put on clean clothes , and take some warm tea about ten in the morning , when the Master 's servant came to tell him that the Seniority desired his presence . He at once knew that it must be for his irregularity of the previous night , which , in the agitation of other thoughts , had not occurred to him before . He remembered , too , that the Senior Dean had only recently threatened him that , in consequence of his late misdoings , the next offence would be visited with summary and final punishment . Kennedy received rather hard treatment at the hand of the Senior Dean , who was a very worthy and excellent man , but so firm and punctilious that he could neither conceive nor tolerate the existence of beings less precise in their nature than himself .