about ten o'clock
The club , so called at Dillsborough , was held every Saturday evening in a back parlour at the Bush , and was attended generally by seven or eight members . It was a very easy club . There was no balloting , and no other expense attending it other than that of paying for the liquor which each man chose to drink . Sometimes , about ten o'clock , there was a little supper , the cost of which was defrayed by subscription among those who partook of it . It was one rule of the club , or a habit , rather , which had grown to be a rule , that Mr. Runciman might introduce into it any one he pleased . I do not know that a similar privilege was denied to any one else ; but as Mr. Runciman had a direct pecuniary advantage in promoting the club , the new-comers were generally ushered in by him . When the attorney and Twentyman entered the room Mr. Runciman was seated as usual in an arm-chair at the corner of the fire nearest to the door , with the bell at his right hand .