about nine o'clock
`` I 'm afraid you 'll have some difficulty in finding him . '' Thus for a second time had I heard his footsteps die away , knowing I should never listen for their drawing near again . I wondered as I walked on -- I have wondered before and since -- whether Art , even with a capital A , is quite worth all the suffering that is inflicted in her behalf -- whether she and we are better for all the scorning and the sneering , all the envying and the hating , that is done in her name . Jephson arrived about nine o'clock in the ferry-boat . We were made acquainted with this fact by having our heads bumped against the sides of the saloon . Somebody or other always had their head bumped whenever the ferry-boat arrived . It was a heavy and cumbersome machine , and the ferry-boy was not a good punter .