midday
By degrees the grove filled with people -- the Elliots , the Thornburys , Mr. Venning and Susan , Miss Allan , Evelyn Murgatroyd , and Mr. Perrott . Mr. Hirst acted the part of hoarse energetic sheep-dog . By means of a few words of caustic Latin he had the animals marshalled , and by inclining a sharp shoulder he lifted the ladies . `` What Hewet fails to understand , '' he remarked , `` is that we must break the back of the ascent before midday . '' He was assisting a young lady , by name Evelyn Murgatroyd , as he spoke . She rose light as a bubble to her seat . With a feather drooping from a broad-brimmed hat , in white from top to toe , she looked like a gallant lady of the time of Charles the First leading royalist troops into action .