ten o'clock
I exhausted the possibilities of that part of Bloomsbury , the possibilities of variety in the types of housekeepers . The rest of London divided itself into bands -- into zones . Between here and Kensington the people that I knew could not be called on after dinner , those who lived at Chiswick and beyond were hyperborean -- one was bound by the exigencies of time . It was ten o'clock as I stood reflecting on a doorstep -- on Johnson 's doorstep . I must see somebody , must talk to somebody , before I went to bed in the cheerless room at the club . It was true I might find a political stalwart in the smoking-room -- but that was a last resort , a desperate and ignominious _ pis aller _ . There was Fox , I should find him at the office .