noon
They set out soon afterwards . But matters were nowise improved . His lordship dozed in a corner of the carriage , while Mistress Winthrop found more interest in the flowering hedgerows than in Mr. Caryll , ignored him when he talked , and did not answer him when he set questions ; till , in the end , he , too , lapsed into silence , and as a solatium for his soreness assured himself by lengthy , wordless arguments that matters were best so . They entered the outlying parts of London some two hours later , and it still wanted an hour or so to noon when the chaise brought up inside the railings before the earl 's house in Lincoln 's Inn Fields . There came a rush of footmen , a bustle of service , amid which they alighted and entered the splendid residence that was part of the little that remained Lord Ostermore from the wreck his fortunes had suffered on the shoals of the South Sea . Mr. Caryll paused a moment to dismiss Leduc to the address in Old Palace Yard where he had hired a lodging . That done , he followed his lordship and Hortensia within doors .