ten o'clock
Quite right ; shmoking is very bad for growing lads , '' with a glance at Master Julius , who was coolly lighting a cigarette . `` If ye do n't shmoke ye can at least sit and listen to Mr Monroe 's and my illuminatin ' conversation until it 's time for us to join the ladies . Mrs Vansittart -- God bless her kind heart ! -- allows us just half an hour for an afther-dinner shmoke ; then she expects us to join her in the drawing-room until ten o'clock , and to contribute , each in our separate ways , toward the entertainment of the rest . Do ye sing by anny chance ? '' I modestly replied that I did , a little , and that in a very amateurish way I also played the fiddle . I may as well frankly confess that in my inmost heart I rather prided myself upon my musical accomplishments , music being a perfect passion with me .