nine o'clock
There followed six days of delirium , six days of the largest conceivable existence . The holiday-makers stopped in a superb boarding-house on the promenade , one of about a thousand superb boarding-houses . The day 's proceedings began at nine o'clock with a regal breakfast , partaken of at a very long table which ran into a bow window . At nine o'clock , in all the thousand boarding-houses , a crowd of hungry and excited men and women sat down thus to a very long table , and consumed the same dishes , that is to say , Manx herrings , and bacon and eggs , and jams . Everybody ate as much as he could . William Henry was never content with less than two herrings , two eggs , about four ounces of bacon , and as much jam as would render a whole Board school sticky . And in four hours after that he was ready for an enormous dinner , and so was she ; and in five hours after that they neither of them had the slightest disinclination for a truly high and complex tea .