two o'clock
`` Quite a select circle , '' observed Mr. Taylor , sitting down by Miss Wyllys , leaning his chair back , and rolling his thumbs , one over the other . `` I have not had a pleasanter evening in a great while , '' said Mrs. Taylor . `` It puts me in mind , husband , of old fashioned tea-parties , when we lived altogether in the country . We used to go at two o'clock , and stay until sunset . I think such sociable parties are much pleasanter than late , crowded balls . '' `` Ha ! ha !