noon
Squire Tempest and his daughter were among the later arrivals . The meet was to be at one , and they only rode into the grounds at half-past twelve , when everyone else had breakfasted . Mrs. Tempest had not come . The entertainment was much too early for a lady who never left her rooms till after noon . Vixen looked lovely in her smart little habit . It was not the Lincoln green with the brass buttons , which Lady Mabel had laughed at a year ago . To-day Miss Tempest wore a dark brown habit , moulded to the full erect figure , with a narrow rim of white at the throat , a little felt hat of the same dark brown with a brown feather , long white gauntlets , and a whip with a massive ivory handle .