eleven o'clock
You are born to the patrician leisure ; you have the accomplishments and the clothes and manners and ideals ; and we men are a natural commonalty , born to business , to newspapers , to cigars , and horses . This natural female aristocracy of ours establishes the forms , usages , places , and times of society . The epicene aristocracies of other countries turn night into day in their social pleasures , and our noblesse sympathetically follows their example . You ladies , who can lie till noon next day , come to Jane 's reception at eleven o'clock , and you drag along with you a herd of us brokers , bankers , merchants , lawyers , and doctors , who must be at our offices and counting-rooms before nine in the morning . The hours of us work-people are regulated by the wholesome industries of the great democracy which we 're a part of ; and the hours of our wives and daughters by the deleterious pleasures of the Old World aristocracy . That 's the reason we 're not all at home in bed . '' `` I thought you were not at home in bed because you could n't sleep . ''