ten o'clock
He was really glad to see her ; to be drawn away by it all from the somberness of his thoughts . The night before he had left the train on the Jersey side and had ferried over so that he might view once more the sky-line of the great city . There had been a stiff breeze blowing and it had seemed to him that he drew the first full breath since the moment when he had walked with Geoffrey in the wood . What had followed had been like a dream ; the knowledge that the great surgeon wanted him , his mother 's quick service in helping him pack his bag , the walk to Bower 's in the fragrant dark to catch the ten o'clock train ; the moment on the porch at Bower 's when he had learned from a word dropped by Beulah that Anne was on the river with Geoffrey . And now it all seemed so far away -- the river with the moon 's broad path , Bower 's low house and its yellow-lighted panes , the silence , the darkness . Since morning he had done a thousand things . He had been to the hospital and had yielded once more to the spell of its splendid machinery ; he had talked with Austin and the talk had been like wine to a thirsty soul .