about twelve in the morning
Molly had said , amid her own sobbing . Joe stood an inch higher among them all because of that word . Then came the breakfast , -- that dullest , saddest hour of all . To feed heavily about twelve in the morning is always a nuisance , -- a nuisance so abominable that it should be avoided under any other circumstances than a wedding in your own family . But that wedding-breakfast , when it does come , is the worst of all feeding . The smart dresses and bare shoulders seen there by daylight , the handing people in and out among the seats , the very nature of the food , made up of chicken and sweets and flummery , the profusion of champagne , not sometimes of the very best on such an occasion ; and then the speeches ! They fall generally to the lot of some middle-aged gentlemen , who seem always to have been selected for their incapacity .