two o'clock
`` Well , we 'll go to the ladies now , '' said Mr. Irwine , rising too . `` I want to tell my mother what a splendid throne you 've prepared for her under the marquee . '' `` Yes , and we must be going to luncheon too , '' said Arthur . `` It must be two o'clock , for there is the gong beginning to sound for the tenants ' dinners . '' Dinner-Time WHEN Adam heard that he was to dine upstairs with the large tenants , he felt rather uncomfortable at the idea of being exalted in this way above his mother and Seth , who were to dine in the cloisters below . But Mr. Mills , the butler , assured him that Captain Donnithorne had given particular orders about it , and would be very angry if Adam was not there . Adam nodded and went up to Seth , who was standing a few yards off .