eight o'clock
Nobody he knew was at the junction . This was the late train that he had come down by . Most of the school had returned earlier in the afternoon . He reached Blackburn 's at eight o'clock , and went up to his study to unpack . This was always his first act on coming back to school . He liked to start the term with all his books in their shelves , and all his pictures and photographs in their proper places on the first day . Some of the studies looked like lumber-rooms till near the end of the first week .