about two
o'clock
All must be done within the next month . If on Miss Baker was to fall the honour of being Lady Bertram , she must not only receive him within the month , but , having done so , must also agree to wear her vestal zone yet a little longer , till that troublesome old gentleman should have departed . Such being his month 's work -- he had not quite four weeks left when he came to this resolution -- he wisely resolved to commence it at once . So on one Monday morning he sallied out to the Paragon about two o'clock . At that hour he knew Miss Todd would be surely at home ; for at half-past one she ate her lunch . In the regularity of her eatings and her drinkings , Miss Todd might have been taken as an example by all the ladies of Littlebath . Sir Lionel 's personal appearance has been already described .