three o'clock
`` Very well , '' said the man resignedly . `` If you wo n't , you wo n't ; but let 's while it away somehow . Give me a black draught . '' At rare intervals from three o'clock till five other country folk dropped in , two or three -LRB- once even half a dozen -RRB- at a time . As a show the Hymen Hospital and Museum appeared to have outlived its vogue . The male visitors , one and all , removed their hats on entering , and spoke in constrained tones as if in church . To the Major 's relief , no one asked him to recite from the book , and the questions put to him were of the simplest .