about noon
You always want to look at the last page . '' `` You were trying to look at the last page yourself , '' she retorted , and she would have liked to punish him for his complex dishonesty toward the affair ; but upon the whole she kept her temper with him , and she made him agree that Miss Triscoe 's getting her father to Carlsbad was only a question of time . They parted heart 's - friends with their ineffectual guide , who was affectionately grateful for the few marks they gave him , at the hotel door ; and they were in just the mood to hear men singing in a farther room when they went down to supper . The waiter , much distracted from their own service by his duties to it , told them it was the breakfast party of students which they had heard beginning there about noon . The revellers had now been some six hours at table , and he said they might not rise before midnight ; they had just got to the toasts , which were apparently set to music . The students of right remained a vivid color in the impression of the university town . They pervaded the place , and decorated it with their fantastic personal taste in coats and trousers , as well as their corps caps of green , white , red , and blue , but above all blue .