three o'clock in the afternoon
It 'll give us an appetite . '' It was then nearly seven o'clock . Nine hours afterwards the same two men , with two others , -- of whom young Lord Grasslough , Dolly Longestaffe 's peculiar aversion , was one , -- were just rising from a card-table in one of the up-stairs rooms of the club . For it was understood that , though the Beargarden was not to be open before three o'clock in the afternoon , the accommodation denied during the day was to be given freely during the night . No man could get a breakfast at the Beargarden , but suppers at three o'clock in the morning were quite within the rule . Such a supper , or rather succession of suppering , there had been to-night , various devils and broils and hot toasts having been brought up from time to time first for one and then for another . But there had been no cessation of gambling since the cards had first been opened about ten o'clock .