3 o'clock in the afternoon
I was right , she is in love , and the gentleman she loves is not approved of by Tanty and the upshot of it all is we are to leave dear Bath , delightful Bath , to-morrow -- to-day rather -- for some unknown penitential region which our stern relative as yet declines to name . I am longing to hear more about it ; but Tanty , who , though she talks so much , can keep her own counsel better than any woman I know , will not give me any further information beyond the facts that the delinquent who has dared to aspire to my sister is a person of _ the name of Smith _ , and that it would not do at all . I have not the heart to wake Madeleine to make her tell me more , though I really ought to pinch her well for being so secretive -- besides , my head is so full of my own day that I want to get it all written down , and I shall never have done so unless I begin at the beginning . Yesterday , then , at 3 o'clock in the afternoon Lord Dereham 's coach and four came clattering up to our door to call for me . Mrs. Hambledon was already installed and Lady Soames and a dozen other of the _ fashionables _ of Bath . My little Lord Marquis had kept the box seat for me , at which the other ladies , even my dear friend and chaperon , looked rather green . The weather was glorious , and off we went with a flourish of trumpets and whips , and I knew I should enjoy myself monstrously .