nearly eleven o'clock
Please remember me to your people . Yours ever , F. F. `` P.S. I suppose you wo n't come down to Cornwall ; the men are all right , five of them . '' Now Fred had spent nearly all his school-holidays with me , and since we had been at Oxford he had been down for both vacs , so for him to write and say calmly that he had made arrangements to go on a wretched reading party and then to ask me in a postscript to join it , made me want to go to Oriel at once and speak to him . But , fortunately , it was nearly eleven o'clock and I could not get out of college , so as Murray had gone back to his room I went along the passage to work off some of my agitation on him . Murray , however , was one of those annoying men who know exactly when they have had enough of anybody , and I found his oak sported . I beat upon it for some time without any result , and having told Murray my opinion of him in a voice loud enough to penetrate almost anything , I went back to my own rooms and sat down to write to Fred . In the course of an hour I wrote and tore up several letters .