nine o'clock
Whether ' e done it or not they 'll fix it on ter ` im , doncher know ! '' John 's head spun round and round . He remembered what Brother Andrew had said of Charlie Wilkes , and his heart , so warm a moment ago , felt benumbed as by frost . Nevertheless , at nine o'clock he was going westward in the Underground . People looked at him when he stepped into the carriage . He thought everybody knew him , and that the world was only playing with him as a cat plays with a mouse . The compartment was full of young clerks smoking pipes and reading newspapers .