half past seven
There is always an uncertainty about the view which a club committee will take of any unusual event . I might very easily have been asked to resign my membership . Gorman accepted my invitation , but said he would have to be back in the House of Commons at 9 o'clock . I fixed dinner for half past seven , which gave me nearly an hour and a half with Gorman , more time than Malcolmson had required to state his side of the case . But Gorman was very much more difficult to deal with . He was not inclined to discuss Home Rule or the Ulster situation . He wanted to talk about Tim 's cash register , and , later on , about the new way of putting cinematograph pictures on the stage .