one o'clock
Take a woman of the world : follow her course through the season ; one asks how she can survive it ? or if she tumbles into a sleep at the end of August , and lies torpid until the spring ? She goes into the world every night , and sits watching her marriageable daughters dancing till long after dawn . She has a nursery of little ones , very likely , at home , to whom she administers example and affection ; having an eye likewise to bread-and-milk , catechism , music and French , and roast leg of mutton at one o'clock ; she has to call upon ladies of her own station , either domestically or in her public character , in which she sits upon Charity Committees , or Ball Committees , or Emigration Committees , or Queen 's College Committees , and discharges I do n't know what more duties of British stateswomanship . She very likely keeps a poor visiting list ; has combinations with the clergyman about soup or flannel , or proper religious teaching for the parish ; and -LRB- if she lives in certain districts -RRB- probably attends early church . She has the newspapers to read , and , at least , must know what her husband 's party is about , so as to be able to talk to her neighbor at dinner ; and it is a fact that she reads every new book that comes out ; for she can talk , and very smartly and well , about them all , and you see them all upon her drawing-room table . She has the cares of her household besides : to make both ends meet ; to make the girl 's milliner 's bills appear not too dreadful to the father and paymaster of the family ; to snip off , in secret , a little extra article of expenditure here and there , and convey it , in the shape of a bank-note , to the boys at college or at sea ; to check the encroachments of tradesmen , and housekeepers ' financial fallacies ; to keep upper and lower servants from jangling with one another , and the household in order .