a quarter past ten o'clock
Mr. Armstrong , Mr. Granger , with some military men and country squires , took their breakfast as calmly as if a wedding were part of the daily business of life . Miss Granger exhibited a polite indifference about the great event ; Miss Lovel was pale and nervous , not able to give much attention to Daniel Granger , who had contrived to sit next her that morning , and talked to her a good deal , with an apparent unconsciousness of the severe gaze of his daughter , seated exactly opposite to him . Clarissa was glad to make her toilet an excuse for leaving Mr. Granger ; but once in the sanctuary of her own room , she sat down in an absent manner , and made no attempt to begin dressing . Fosset , the maid , found her there at a quarter past ten o'clock -- the ceremony was to take place at eleven -- and gave a cry of horror at seeing the toilet uncommenced . `` Good gracious me , miss ! what have you been thinking of ? Your hair not begun nor nothing !