ten o'clock
He could not endure it . He must go out . He will walk the streets . It is not late , -- it is but ten o'clock . He will go . The air of his dream still hung heavily about him . He was in the street , -- he hardly remembered how he had got there , or when ; but there he was , wrapped up from the searching cold , thinking , with a quiet horror in his mind , of the darkened room he had left behind , and haunted by the sense that something was groping about there in the darkness , searching for him .