In the 19th century, dinner moved even later to eight in the evening, and "teatime," between lunch and dinner, came into being as a response to the workings of the biological clock, and not merely through the inventiveness of the Duchess of Bedford.
到了十九世紀，晚餐時間更延後到晚間八點，於是中晚餐間的「喝茶時間」實為生理時鐘應運而生，而非貝德福公爵夫人獨有之奇想。