two o'clock in the
nineteenth century
Suicide , homicide , self-starvation . But the plaintiff got to Mr. Colt with a piece of paper , on which he had written his view of all this , and cross-examination dissolved the suicide and homicide into a spirited attempt to escape and resist a false imprisonment As for the self-starvation , Colt elicited that Alfred had eaten at six o'clock though not at two . `` And pray , sir , '' said he , contemptuously , to the witness , `` do you never stir out of a madhouse ? Do you imagine that gentlemen in their senses dine at two o'clock in the nineteenth century ? '' `` No . I do n't say that . '' `` What _ do _ you say , then ?