midday
But the nights have their good , and -- well -- and their less good times , too . My evening meal is apt to be sketchy . There is a special vein of laziness in me which makes me shirk the setting out of plates and cutlery , and , even more , their removal when used ; despite the fact that I have had , perhaps , rather more experience than most men of catering for myself . Hence , the evening meal is apt to be sketchy ; a furtive and far from creditable performance , with the vessels of the midday meal for its background . Then , with a sense of relief , I shut the door upon that episode , and the evidences thereof , and betake me to the room which is really mine ; where the big hearth is , and the camp-bed , and the writing-table , the books , and the big Ceylon-made lounge-chair . The first evening pipe is nearly always good ; the second may be flavoured with melancholy , but yet is seldom unpleasing . The third -- there are decent intervals between -- bears me company in bed , with whatever book may be occupying me at the time .