half past six
`` I do feel like a blooming hypocrite , '' he exclaimed to himself remorsefully . `` Here I came down to Wellington at their expense to give them a fake lecture and they are treating me like a king . '' But he accepted the invitation , trusting to luck that his clothes would be dry and tipping the infirmary cook to press his trousers and black his shoes . At half past six , then , Jimmy appeared at the Quadrangle archway . He wore some of the violets in his buttonhole and his keen , dark eyes shone with suppressed humor . A delegation of seniors met him and conducted him back to the dining-hall , where several hundreds of young persons all in their very best stood up to receive him . A seat of honor was given to him at the end of the long table and every girl in the room liked him immensely , not only for his broad jolly smile , but because at the end of dinner he arose and , without the slightest embarrassment , made the most deliciously funny speech ever heard .