three o'clock in the afternoon
`` It would be the best chance for his redemption . A little womanly kindness and counsel from you to the wife might bring about a happier state of things in his home ; and a man who can be happy at home is in a measure saved . It is hardly possible for your brother to mix much with the people amongst whom I saw him without injury to himself . They are people to whom dissipation is the very salt of life ; people who breakfast at the Moulin Rouge at three o'clock in the afternoon , and eat ices at midnight to the music of the cascade in the Bois ; people to be seen at every race-meeting ; men who borrow money at seventy-five per cent to pay for opera-boxes and dinners at the Café Riche , and who manage the rest of their existence on credit . '' `` But what could my influence do against such friends as these ? '' asked Clarissa in a hopeless tone . `` Who can say ?