About half past nine
The twilight caught them before their work was done . Bennington found himself too weary to attempt an unknown , _ débris _ - covered road by dark . He played cribbage with Old Mizzou and won . About half past nine he pushed back his chair and went outside . The stars had come out by the thousand , and a solitary cricket , which had in some way escaped the deluge , was chirping in the middle distance . With a sudden uplift of the heart he realized that he would see `` her '' on the morrow . He learned that no matter how philosophically we may have borne a separation , the prospect of its near end shows us how strong the repression has been ; the lifting of the bonds makes evident how much they have galled .