twelve o’clock
We enjoyed ourselves that evening completely , and yet all was kept so private in the inn that not a servant in the house knew of it , for my landlady and her daughter waited on me , and would not let any of the maids come upstairs , except while we were at supper . My landlady 's daughter I called my bridesmaid ; and sending for a shopkeeper the next morning , I gave the young woman a good suit of knots , as good as the town would afford , and finding it was a lace-making town , I gave her mother a piece of bone-lace for a head . One reason that my landlord was so close was , that he was unwilling the minister of the parish should hear of it ; but for all that somebody heard of it , so at that we had the bells set a-ringing the next morning early , and the music , such as the town would afford , under our window ; but my landlord brazened it out , that we were married before we came thither , only that , being his former guests , we would have our wedding-supper at his house . We could not find in our hearts to stir the next day ; for , in short , having been disturbed by the bells in the morning , and having perhaps not slept overmuch before , we were so sleepy afterwards that we lay in bed till almost twelve o'clock . I begged my landlady that we might not have any more music in the town , nor ringing of bells , and she managed it so well that we were very quiet ; but an odd passage interrupted all my mirth for a good while . The great room of the house looked into the street , and my new spouse being belowstairs , I had walked to the end of the room ; and it being a pleasant , warm day , I had opened the window , and was standing at it for some air , when I saw three gentlemen come by on horseback and go into an inn just against us . It was not to be concealed , nor was it so doubtful as to leave me any room to question it , but the second of the three was my Lancashire husband .