seven o'clock until two in the morning
`` The last time I was here , '' he said , absently , `` was two years ago . One of the fellows at New Haven had a birthday , and we celebrated it in the corner room just above this . It was a pretty lively dinner . We kept it up from seven o'clock until two in the morning , and then we all went out on the Avenue and sat down in the middle of the street , where it was cool , to smoke and talk it over . That was Davidson 's idea . It annoyed the cabmen and policemen horribly . They have such ready tempers and such torpid minds . ''