about one
o’clock
`` All this happened about two years before the day when Davidson , sitting in this very room , talked to my friend . You will see presently how this room can get full . Every seat 'll be occupied , and as you notice , the tables are set close , so that the backs of the chairs are almost touching . There is also a good deal of noisy talk here about one o'clock . `` I do n't suppose Davidson was talking very loudly ; but very likely he had to raise his voice across the table to my friend . And here accident , mere accident , put in its work by providing a pair of fine ears close behind Davidson 's chair . It was ten to one against , the owner of the same having enough change in his pockets to get his tiffin here .