five o'clock
`` When men have acquired fame , it is hardly necessary to inquire if they belong to the best families , '' I rejoined , borrowing a leaf from Aunt Agnes 's book . `` It is one thing to admire the works of genius , and another to have it trampoosing over your house . Your acquaintances are , I dare say , well enough as poets and philosophers , but I do n't see what that has to do with you . You are neither a poet nor a philosopher , and you will flatter them much more by buying their books than by asking them to five o'clock tea . I must say that , philosopher or no philosopher , the young man who was talking with me has very strange ideas . Just think of his advocating co-operative house-keeping , and marriages before a Justice of the Peace . I fancy too that he is lax in his religious opinions .