ten o'clock
Oh ! if he only could ! '' How long the hours seemed while he waited ! He thought ten o'clock would never come , but at last , looking at his watch by the light of a match , he saw it lacked but thirty minutes of that time . `` I 'll start , '' he said to himself . `` He may be there a little ahead of me . '' Frank reached the edge of the woods , where they marked the beginning of the sanitarium grounds .