4 p.m.
Adam is supposed to have lived in a garden , '' I ventured to interpolate . `` Perhaps you would ask your friend with the stubbly hair to remain quiet , '' snorted Sir Alexander . `` I was about to add , although for the sake of my name I meet your debts , that I have had enough of this kind of thing . I disinherit you , or will do if I live till 4 p.m. when the lawyer 's office shuts , for thank God ! there are no entailed estates , and I dismiss you from the firm . You can go and earn your living in any way you please , by orchid-hunting if you like . '' He paused , gasping for breath .