ten o'clock
But to be transplanted abruptly and with a wrench from his native soil was too much . He went upstairs to pack , suffering from as severe an attack of the blues as any youth of eighteen had experienced since blues were first invented . Jimmy Silver hovered round , while he packed , with expressions of sympathy and bitter remarks concerning Mr Kay and his wicked works , and , when the operation was concluded , helped Kennedy carry his box over to his new house with the air of one seeing a friend off to the parts beyond the equator . It was ten o'clock by the time the front door of Kay 's closed upon its new head . Kennedy went to the matron 's sanctum to be instructed in the geography of the house . The matron , a severe lady , whose faith in human nature had been terribly shaken by five years of office in Kay 's , showed him his dormitory and study with a lack of geniality which added a deeper tinge of azure to Kennedy 's blues . `` So you 've come to live here , have you ? ''