eleven o'clock in the morning
Not the faintest slur had ever been cast upon its licence . Still , it had a bar and a barmaid , and indubitably people drank at the bar . When a prominent man took to drink -LRB- as prominent men sometimes did -RRB- , people would say , `` He 's always nipping into the Tiger ! '' Or , `` You 'll see him at the Tiger before eleven o'clock in the morning ! '' Hence to Samuel Peel , total abstainer and temperance reformer , the Tiger , despite its vast respectability and the reputation of its eighteen-penny ordinary , was a place of sin , a place of contamination ; briefly , a `` gin palace , '' if not a `` gaming-saloon . '' On principle , Samuel Peel -LRB- as his niece suspected -RRB- had never set foot in the Tiger . The thought that his great-nephew and his niece had actually slept there horrified him .