about noon
Even the moderate reform in the young man 's expenses which had been effected under dire necessity had been of late abandoned . Though he never told her anything , she became aware that during the last month of the hunting season he had hunted nearly every day . She knew , too , that he had a horse up in town . She never saw him but once in the day , when she visited him in his bed about noon , and was aware that he was always at his club throughout the night . She knew that he was gambling , and she hated gambling as being of all pastimes the most dangerous . But she knew that he had ready money for his immediate purposes , and that two or three tradesmen who were gifted with a peculiar power of annoying their debtors , had ceased to trouble her in Welbeck Street . For the present , therefore , she consoled herself by reflecting that his gambling was successful .