nearly four o'clock
They had very large margins , gilt frames , and professed to represent sunsets , sunrises , and full moons , at Tintern , Como , and other places not named , which Mrs. Furze , in answer to inquiries , always called `` the Continent . '' Mr. Furze had had a longish walk one morning , and was rather tired . When he came home to dinner he found the house upset by one of its periodical cleanings , and consequently dinner was served upstairs , and not in the half-underground breakfast-room , as it was called , which was the real living-room of the family . Mr. Furze , being late and weary , prolonged his stay at home till nearly four o'clock , and , notwithstanding a rebuke from Mrs. Furze , insisted on smoking his pipe in the dining-room . Presently he took off his coat and put his feet on a chair , Sunday fashion . `` My dear , '' said his wife . `` I do n't want to interfere with your comfort , but do n't you think you might give up that practice of sitting in your shirt-sleeves now we have moved ? ''