noon
If you can not do this I must talk it over with my husband ; I shall have some hours in which to make up my mind . Now go -- the sooner the better . '' It was nearly eleven , and in a few minutes George was on his way . By noon he was at Fairmead , where he tried all the inns in vain for news of a person answering the description of my father -- for not knowing what name my father might choose to give , he could trust only to description . He concluded that since my father could not be heard of in Fairmead by one o'clock -LRB- as it nearly was by the time he had been round all the inns -RRB- he must have gone somewhere else ; he therefore rode back to Sunch ` ston , made a hasty lunch , got a fresh horse , and rode to Clearwater , where he met with no better success . At all the inns both at Fairmead and Clearwater he left word that if the person he had described came later in the day , he was to be told that the Mayoress particularly begged him to return at once to Sunch ` ston , and come to the Mayor 's house . Now all the time that George was at Fairmead my father was inside the Musical Bank , which he had entered before going to any inn .