eleven o'clock at night
The main smoking-room of the Strollers ' Club had been filling for the last half-hour , and was now nearly full . In many ways , the Strollers ' , though not the most magnificent , is the pleasantest club in New York . Its ideals are comfort without pomp ; and it is given over after eleven o'clock at night mainly to the Stage . Everybody is young , clean-shaven , and full of conversation : and the conversation strikes a purely professional note . Everybody in the room on this July night had come from the theater . Most of those present had been acting , but a certain number had been to the opening performance of the latest better-than-Raffles play .