nine o'clock night
Jack , at any rate , snored so loudly at the second meeting that he shocked the President , and when he woke up he interrupted a discussion by giving a very fluent lecture on the advantages of ventilation . I expect that he would have been turned out of the society if he had not resigned , and I ought not to have dragged him into it , for he was so violently bored by the whole thing that he declared he must have a little pleasure to make him forget all about it . `` Something in the open air , '' he said to me , when he came to my rooms on the morning after he had snored , and he looked at a volume of _ Stubbs ' Constitutional History _ as if he was very tired of it . I was also feeling rather dull , for I had already got through a fortnight of my gating , and to be kept in college after nine o'clock night after night is not very exciting . `` A little change is what we want , '' Jack went on , as I said nothing . `` I ca n't do much , '' I answered ; `` I 'm gated and you have got to row . '' `` I 've got a day off to-morrow ; the stroke of my boat has to go to town and bow 's ill . ''