noon
It could matter very little where she found a refuge , if only she had her darling with her . So the two women consulted together , and plotted and planned in Clarissa 's sanctum ; while Daniel Granger paced up and down the great dreary drawing-room , waiting for that promised visit from George Fairfax . * * * * * Mr. Fairfax came a little after noon -- came with a calm grave aspect , as of a man who had serious work before him . With all his heart he wished that the days of duelling had not been over ; that he could have sent his best friend to Daniel Granger , and made an end of the quarrel in a gentlemanlike way , in some obscure alley at Vincennes , or amidst the shadowy aisles of St. Germains . But a duel nowadays is too complete an anachronism for an Englishman to propose in cold blood . Mr. Fairfax came to his enemy 's house for one special purpose .