three o'clock in the afternoon
She was likely to be accountable for a good deal of bloodshed if there was any street fighting next day . The record of her bag would , I should think , haunt Sir Samuel Clithering for the rest of his life . `` I 've a matter of five thousand cartridges , '' said McConkey in a hoarse whisper , `` and there 's another five thousand ordered . '' The committee met at three o'clock in the afternoon . Sir Samuel Clithering was not , of course , a member of it ; but he lurked about outside and waylaid us as we went in . He was in a condition of pitiful bewilderment . Alice whose adventures in Wonderland have been very dear to me since I first read them aloud to Marion , was once placed in a difficult and awkward position by the kings , queens and knaves of the pack of cards with which she was playing coming to life .