about four o'clock
She may intertain missionaries in the attics and hold meetings of the Dorcas Society in the basement . She may give reformed burglars the run of the silver-closet , and allow curates and chorus-girls to mingle in sweet companionship on the staircase . But she must leave the library alone , and neither she nor her following must overflow through its double doors during what I call business hours . On this particular afternoon I had been engaged upon the draft of a small bill with which I had been entrusted -- we will call it the `` Importation of Mad Dogs Bill , '' -- and about four o'clock I handed it to Robin with instructions to write out a fair copy . Robin retired into his inner chamber , and I sat down in an arm-chair with _ Punch _ . -LRB- It was a Wednesday , the Parliamentary half-holiday of those days , and still , happily , the _ Punch _ - day of these . -RRB- Kitty was holding a Drawing-room Meeting upstairs .