six o'clock
They were very busy with the writings of notes and certain mysterious goings and comings of their own , and left me very much to my own devices . Their speech in my presence was full of unfathomable allusions . They were the sort of girls who will talk over and through an uninitiated stranger with the pleasantest sense of superiority . I met them at breakfast and at lunch and at the half-past six o'clock high tea that formed the third chief meal of the day . I heard them rattling off the compositions of Chaminade and Moskowski , with great decision and effect , and hovered on the edge of tennis foursomes where it was manifest to the dullest intelligence that my presence was unnecessary . Then I went off to find some readable book in the place , but apart from miscellaneous popular novels , some veterinary works , a number of comic books , old bound volumes of THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS and a large , popular illustrated History of England , there was very little to be found . My aunt talked to me in a casual feeble way , chiefly about my mother 's last illness .