ten o'clock
He himself was afraid of what was being planned there . It might help him if he knew something more of Garratt Skinner than he knew at present . And it seemed to him that there was just a chance of acquiring that knowledge . He dined at his club , and at ten o'clock walked up St. James ' Street . The street was empty . It was a hot starlit night of the first week in August , and there came upon him a swift homesickness for the world above the snow-line . How many of his friends were sleeping that night in mountain huts high up on the shoulders of the mountains or in bivouacs open to the stars with a rock-cliff at their backs and a fire of pine wood blazing at their feet .