four o'clock
Confine yourself to Hock and Moselle , sirrah : I fear me , you have a base hankering after mutton and beef . Restrict yourself to salads , and do not sin even with an omelette more than once a week . Coridon must be visionary and diaphanous , or he is no Coridon for me . Remove my night-gloves , and assist me to rise : it is past four o'clock , and the sun must have , by this time , sufficiently aired this terrestrial globe . ' '' _ A. _ I have it now ; I feel I could go on for an hour . _ B. _ Longer than that , before you get him out of his dressing-room . You must make at least five chapters before he is apparelled , or how can you write a fashionable novel , in which you can not afford more than two incidents in the three volumes ?