ten o'clock
He saw Eleanor lead his mother out of the station . She had taken hold of Mrs. MacDermott 's arm and drawn it into hers , and linked thus , they had gone out , but neither of them had turned to look back at him . He had not known how to fill in the time between then and ten o'clock ... whether to go to a theatre or walk about the streets ... and had ended by spinning out his dinner-time as long as possible , and then walking from Soho to Eleanor 's club . He had arrived there before ten o'clock , but they allowed him to sit with them ! ... He had an overwhelming sense of being _ allowed _ to do so . Suddenly and unaccountably all his power had gone from him , his instinctive insistence upon his own will , his immediate assumption that what he desired must be acceptable to others and his complete indifference to whether what he desired was acceptable or not to others ... suddenly and unaccountably these things had gone from him and he was submitting to the will of his mother and of Eleanor . His mother 's conversation , too , had been displeasing to him .