10 p.m.
To quarrel with him therefore would be calamitous : to pay him was impossible , without recourse to financial suicide . `` What does it amount to ? '' he asked , bending over the bits of dirty paper . `` H 'm , £ 117 -- pretty stiff little bill to meet between 10 p.m. and 10 a.m. Suppose I let you have fifty ? '' The digger looked at the goldsmith in astonishment . `` If I did n't want the money , I 'd chuck these bits o ' paper in the fire , '' he exclaimed . `` S'fer as _ I 'm _ concerned the odd seventeen pound would do _ me _ , but it 's the missis down in Otago .