four until eleven
Such conduct was a profanation to the memory of Isaac and Eliza Travers . There was too much an air of revelry in the house . The long table was never shortened , while there was extra help in the kitchen . Breakfast extended from four until eleven , and the midnight suppers , entailing raids on the pantry and complaints from the servants , were a vexation to Frederick . The house had become a restaurant , a hotel , he sneered bitterly to himself ; and there were times when he was sorely tempted to put his foot down and reassert the old ways . But somehow the ancient sorcery of his masterful brother was too strong upon him ; and at times he gazed upon him with a sense almost of awe , groping to fathom the alchemy of charm , baffled by the strange lights and fires in his brother 's eyes , and by the wisdom of far places and of wild nights and days written in his face . What was it ?