nearly seven o'clock
I think I 'll have a little drop of curaçoa before dinner . Come along and try it . 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 .