about ten o'clock
Here he found an old friend , who most fortunately said something derogatory of the firm of Benson & Honaton . The opinion coincided with certain phases of Wayne 's own views , but he contradicted it , held it up to ridicule , and ended by quoting incidents in the history of his friend 's own firm which , as he said , were probably among the crookedest things that had ever been put over in Wall Street . Lily would not have distracted his mind more completely . He felt almost cheerful when he went home about ten o'clock . His mother was still out , and there was no letter from Mathilde . He had been counting on finding one . Before long his mother came in .