seven o'clock
`` But I want you to meet him . You will think he 's rather queer , but I will explain to you afterwards . Tell Alice to take my word for him . '' Montague delivered the message , and at seven o'clock they went downstairs . In the reception room they met Oliver and his friend , and it was all that Montague could do to repress a look of consternation . The name of the personage was Mr. Gamble . He was a little man , a trifle over five feet high , and so fat that one wondered how he could get about alone ; his chin and neck were a series of rolls of fat .