4:30
It was a bitter day for DeLancey when Sam went to work . It almost shook his faith in idleness . But he stood firm . Luncheon kills two hours for DeLancey , and then he goes up to the Homeburg Commercial Club and shoots the pool balls around the table until 4:30 , waiting eagerly for some one to stop working and come to play with him . Sometimes they come and sometimes they do n't . If they do n't , he goes down to the hotel and talks with a traveling man . I often see him in the lobby of the Delmonico , sitting in magnificent ease , blowing large smoke rings and talking with an air of unconscious grandeur to some eager-eyed drummer , who is delighted but mystified at the ease with which he is breaking into the first families .