five o’clock
`` You wondered why this young Englishman should call upon her at that hour ? '' said The Sparrow . `` I did . She never received visitors after her five o'clock tea . It was the habit at the Villa Amette to lunch at one o'clock , English tea at five o'clock , and dinner at eight -- when the Rooms were slack save for the tourists from seven till ten . Strange ! The tourists always think they can win while the gambling world has gone to its meals !