one o'clock
Was the outcome of two generations of unremitting toil merely Ellis ? -LRB- Ellis had several pretty sisters , but they did not count . -RRB- John could only guess at what old Jack 's attitude might have been towards Ellis -- Ellis , who had his shirts made to measure . He knew exactly what was Ellis 's attitude towards the ideals of old Jack , old Jack the class-leader , who wore clogs till he was thirty , and dined in his shirt-sleeves at one o'clock to the end of his life . Ellis quitted the portico , ran down the winding garden-path , and jumped neatly and fearlessly on to an electric tramcar as it passed at the rate of fifteen miles an hour . The car was going to Hanbridge , and it was crowded with the joy of life ; Ellis had to stand on the step . This was the Saturday before the first Monday in August , and therefore the formal opening of Knype Wakes , the most carnivalesque of all the carnivals which enliven the four seasons in the Five Towns .