about noon
There is n't time for much ceremony after a general election . '' Phineas reached London early in the morning , and went home to bed for an hour or so . The House was to meet on that very day , and he intended to begin his parliamentary duties at once if he should find it possible to get some one to accompany him ; He felt that he should lack courage to go down to Westminster Hall alone , and explain to the policeman and door-keepers that he was the man who had just been elected member for Loughshane . So about noon he went into the Reform Club , and there he found a great crowd of men , among whom there was a plentiful sprinkling of members . Erle saw him in a moment , and came to him with congratulations . `` So you 're all right , Finn , '' said he . `` Yes ; I 'm all right , -- I did n't have much doubt about it when I went over . ''