eight o’clock in the morning
` Having taken a chair . ' ` You said a pudding . ' ` No , no , ' replied John , colouring rather ; ` a chair . The idea of a stranger coming into my rooms at half-past eight o'clock in the morning , and taking a pudding ! Having taken a chair , Tom , a chair -- amazed me by opening the conversation thus : `` I believe you are acquainted , sir , with Mr Thomas Pinch ? '' ` No ! ' cried Tom .