ten
o'clock in the evening
There also was a deluge of letters likely to await him in his apartment . For in his hurried departure he had purposely left his friends in the dark as to his whereabouts . Only to Jack he had dropped a little note the day after his meeting with Ethel . He earnestly hoped to find Reginald at home , though it was well nigh ten o'clock in the evening , and he cursed the `` rapid transit '' for its inability to annihilate space and time . It is indeed disconcerting to think how many months , if not years , of our earthly sojourn the dwellers in cities spend in transportation conveyances that must be set down as a dead loss in the ledger of life . A nervous impatience against things material overcame Ernest in the subway . It is ever the mere stupid obstacle of matter that weights down the wings of the soul and prevents it from soaring upward to the sun .