eleven o'clock
He had a wild desire to go in at the front door , confront Reynolds in his smug complacency and drive him out ; to demand his place in the world and take it . He could hardly tear himself away . Under a street lamp he looked at his watch . It was eleven o'clock , and he had a half hour to spare before train-time . Following an impulse he did not analyze he turned toward the Wheeler house . Just so months ago had he turned in that direction , but with this difference , that then he went with a sort of hurried expectancy , and that now he loitered on the way . Yet that it somehow drew him he knew .