six
o'clock
how hungry we were ! At Peter 's home it 's an unheard-of thing to eat anything after half-past six -- almost a crime , unless it 's a wedding or state reception . We began now with coffee in the dining-room , and jam and cheese , and ended by gradual stages at hot lobster in the chafing-dish in the studio -- the darky was out all night , as usual . Then Harry and Peter concluded that it was too late to go to bed at all -- it was really daylight -- so they took bath-towels and went down to the river and had a swim , and Harry slipped back to the house at six o'clock . He said we 'd repeat it all the next night , but of course we did n't . He 's the kind that , as soon as he 's promised to do a thing , feels at once that he does n't really want to do it . The next day Peter 's Aunt Elizabeth came on the scene , and of course we stayed away as much as we could .