noon before
After breakfast Archie suggested that they should leave the car at the inn and proceed to Paris conventionally by train . But Adelle would not give up one kilometre of her great dash for liberty and Archie . Nor would she consider his going on by train to make arrangements for the marriage . So they resumed their rapid flight , but mishaps with tires began , and it was noon before they entered the Porte Maillot . As they drove past the Villa Ponitowski , Adelle looked furtively up at the shutters as if she expected to see Pussy 's severe face lurking there . She guided the machine to the Rue de l'Université and stopped beneath Miss Baxter 's studio windows . If Archie had proposed it , she would have gone at once to a hotel with him and registered , but he prudently suggested the studio , where he hoped to find Cornelia Baxter .