ten o’clock
`` No , Bagley ; a great deal worse , '' I cried . `` Yes , Colonel ; at what hour , sir ? '' the man said ; but then I had not told him what it was . It was ten o'clock when we set out . All was perfectly quiet indoors . My wife was with Roland , who had been quite calm , she said , and who -LRB- though , no doubt , the fever must run its course -RRB- had been better ever since I came . I told Bagley to put on a thick greatcoat over his evening coat , and did the same myself , with strong boots ; for the soil was like a sponge , or worse .