ten o'clock
He did not trust himself to speak till he had mastered his precious discovery , and put it away in the back of his heart , and weighed it down there with a good covering of hatred and revenge , to be brought out as occasion should serve . He was plunging down rapidly enough now ; but he had new motives for making the most of his time , and never played his cards better or made more progress . When a man sits down to such a game , the devil will take good care he sha 'n' t want cunning or strength . It was ten o'clock instead of nine before he left , which he did with a feeling of triumph . Poor Patty remained behind , and shut up the bar , her heart in a flutter , and her hands shaking , while Dick was locking the front door . She hardly knew whether to laugh or cry ; she felt the change which had come over him , and was half fascinated and half repelled by it . Tom walked quickly back to college , in a mood which I do not care to describe .