eleven o'clock
It was just the kind of employment she required for an amusement on a gloomy day , and it put her into a good humour immediately . There was a certain confidential importance about it , and it was a variety , and it gave her the pleasant drive in a fly up the noble avenue , and the sense of being the temporary mistress of all the grand rooms once so familiar to her . She asked Molly to accompany her , out of an access of kindness , but was not at all sorry when Molly excused herself and preferred stopping at home . At eleven o'clock Mrs. Gibson was off , all in her Sunday best -LRB- to use the servant 's expression , which she herself would so have contemned -RRB- , well-dressed in order to impose on the servants at the Towers , for there was no one else to see or to be seen by . `` I shall not be at home until the afternoon , my dear ! But I hope you will not find it dull . I do n't think you will , for you are something like me , my love -- never less alone than when alone , as one of the great authors has justly expressed it . ''