five o'clock
And Dick said , calmly , -- `` Well , I suppose so . Some of those fellows up there are such a trumpery lot . '' So Dulce grew more reassured . But the greatest fun of all was the afternoon spent in Dick 's room , when all his special friends were bidden to five o'clock tea , over which Nan , in her white gown , presided so gracefully . What a dear , shabby old room it was , with old-fashioned window-seats , where one could look down into the quadrangle . Dick was an Oriel man , and thought his college superior even to Magdalen . It became almost too hot and crowded at last , so many were the invitations given ; but then , as Dick said afterwards , `` he was such a soft-hearted beggar that he could not refuse the fellows that pestered him for invitations . ''