Coffeeroom

12 Earlier in the episode we learn that Bloom and Stephen met twice before: "the first in the lilacgarden of Matthew Dillon's house," with Stephen's mother and Molly both present; the second in the "coffeeroom" of the Breslin hotel in the company of Simon Dedalus and Stephen's Uncle Charles, at which time Stephen invited Bloom to dinner, an invitation that Bloom was wise enough to decline with the same kind of grateful appreciation that Stephen uses to decline Bloom's offer of asylum on June 16, 1904.