about half past five
o'clock
`` Misther Gray , I 'll thank you to button your lip , if you plaise . It 's all very right , I suppose ; but in the manetime let daicent Mrs. Mulroony tell her own story . How is it , ma'am ? '' `` Faith , plain enough , '' she replied ; `` he came in about half past five o'clock , with three or four skips from college -- '' `` Scamps , Mrs. Mulroony . Be just , be correct , ma'am . We were all gentlemen scamps , Ned , from college . Everybody knows that a college scamp is a respectable character , especially if he be a divinity student , a class whom we are proud to place at our head .