half past ten
`` My nerves are in need of it to-day . I have to stupefy myself . Perhaps , with the help of this glorious medicine , I shall be able to sleep a few hours . '' It was half past ten , and the physicians were still sitting together . The wine naturally produced a greater degree of intimacy between these two men , who were of the same profession and had already become fairly well acquainted with each other . It was very pleasant to Frederick to unbosom himself . He said he had entered the world with too favourable a preconceived notion .