The sun doesn't shine except once in a while and you don't know it's daylight till about ten.
You know the House of Commons has night sessions always.

Nobody is in the Government offices, except clerks and secretaries, till the afternoon.

We dine at eight, and, when we have a big dinner, at eight thirty.
I like these people (most of 'em) immensely.

They are very genuine and frank, good fighters and folk of our own sort--after you come to know them.

At first they have no manners and don't know what to do.