two o'clock
`` My daughter would have neither peace nor liberty under a Puritan 's roof , '' Sir John said ; `` and I should have neither son nor daughter , and should be a loser by my girl 's marriage . You shall be as much master here , Denzil , as if this were your own house -- which it will be when I have moved to my last billet . Give me a couple of stalls for my roadsters , and kennel room for my dogs , and I want no more . You and Angela may introduce as many new fashions as you like ; dine at two o'clock , and sip your unwholesome Indian drink of an evening . The fine ladies in Paris were beginning to take tea when I was last there , though by the faces they made over the stuff it might have been poison . I can smoke my pipe in the chimney-corner , and look on and admire at the new generation . I shall not feel myself one too many at your fireside , as I used sometimes in the Rue de Touraine , when those strutting Gallic cocks were quizzing me . ''