eleven o'clock in the
morning
Quite suddenly and by some demoniac possession , a desire that had been only intermittently present in Mrs Quantock 's consciousness took full possession of her , a red revolutionary insurgence hoisted its banner . Why with this stupendous novelty in the shape of a Guru should n't she lead and direct Riseholme instead of Lucia ? She had long wondered why darling Lucia should be Queen of Riseholme , and had , by momentary illumination , seen herself thus equipped as far more capable of exercising supremacy . After all , everybody in Riseholme knew Lucia 's old tune by now , and was in his secret consciousness quite aware that she did not play the second and third movements of the Moonlight Sonata , simply because they `` went faster , '' however much she might cloak the omission by saying that they resembled eleven o'clock in the morning and 3 p.m. And Mrs Quantock had often suspected that she did not read one quarter of the books she talked about , and that she got up subjects in the Encyclopaedia , in order to make a brave show that covered essential ignorance . Certainly she spent a good deal of money over entertaining , but Robert had lately made twenty times daily what Lucia spent annually , over Roumanian oils . As for her acting , had she not completely forgotten her words as Lady Macbeth in the middle of the sleep-walking scene ? But here was Lucia , as proved by her note , and her A. D. C. Georgie , wildly interested in the Guru .