eight o'clock
People in Calcutta , who courted and admired the rich banker , had been wont to praise the aristocratic ease of his manner , which was not often disturbed by any vulgar demonstration of his own emotions , and very rarely ruffled by any sympathy with the joys , or pity for the sorrows , of his fellow-creatures . His companion 's ready wit and knowledge of the world -- the very worst part of the world , unhappily -- amused the languid Anglo-Indian : and by the time the travellers reached Winchester , they were on excellent terms with each other . Joseph Wilmot was thoroughly at home with his patron ; and as the two men were dressed in the same fashion , and had pretty much the same nonchalance of manner , it would have been very difficult for a stranger to have discovered which was the servant and which the master . One of them ordered dinner for eight o'clock , the best dinner the house could provide . The luggage was taken up to a private room , and the two men walked away from the hotel arm-in-arm . They walked under the shadow of a low stone colonnade , and then turned aside by the market-place , and made their way into the precincts of the cathedral . There are quaint old courtyards , and shadowy quadrangles hereabouts ; there are pleasant gardens , where the flowers seem to grow brighter in the sanctified shade than other flowers that flaunt in the unhallowed sunshine .