About three in the afternoon
`` Do you want to advertise the copy by exhibiting the original coat ? '' So they remained to the end . Hargraves 's success must have kept him up late that night , for neither at the breakfast nor at the dinner table did he appear . About three in the afternoon he tapped at the door of Major Talbot 's study . The major opened it , and Hargraves walked in with his hands full of the morning papers -- too full of his triumph to notice anything unusual in the major 's demeanour . `` I put it all over 'em last night , major , '' he began exultantly . `` I had my inning , and , I think , scored .