about ten o'clock
Of course I said that I would stay , and I saw Dennison wink at Lambert ; the brute was for ever scoring off me , he had a most unrighteous way of getting what he wanted . For some reason or other Bagshaw was always very decent to me , and when he heard that Ward , Dennison , Collier , Lambert and I were going to finish the evening at The Reindeer he asked me to come home in the brake , but that gibe of Dennison 's was heavy upon me and I had determined to stick to my promise and do whatever came my way . I did not expect that the evening was going to be anything but a rowdy one , for when Lambert did undertake a thing he went at it most zealously . First of all he got Ward to wire and ask Bunny Langham to drive over about ten o'clock and fetch us all back , and then he asked four or five of the most comical people in the Burtington team to come to The Reindeer after dinner and help at a smoking concert . All of the Burtington team came and a number of their friends , in fact I should think that nearly all the labourers in the village were entertained by us during the evening . Mr. Plumb began by being very pleased , and the evening ended in what local newspapers call `` harmony , '' which is the most polite way of saying that any one sang who liked and that the discord was something terrible . I sang a solo , the first and last time I have ever done such a thing , but I was rapturously applauded by an audience who were more kind and thirsty than critical .