about ten o’clock
Then we have an hour or so of quiet , when we smoke or read , or box with the coachman in the harness room . After tea the evening 's work commences . From six to nine people are coming in for their medicine , or fresh patients wishing advice . When these are settled we have to see again any very grave cases which may be on the list ; and so , about ten o'clock , we may hope to have another smoke , and perhaps a game of cards . Then it is a rare thing for a night to pass without one or other of us having to trudge off to a case which may take us two hours , or may take us ten . Hard work , as you see ; but Horton is such a good chap , and works so hard himself , that one does not mind what one does . And then we are all like brothers in the house ; our talk is just a rattle of chaff , and the patients are as homely as ourselves , so that the work becomes quite a pleasure to all of us .