About two o’clock
And yet I loved her once -- for a month or two . '' This was not an agreeable scene , and it may be said that Lady Honoria was a vulgar person . But not even the advantage of having been brought up `` on the knees of marchionesses '' is a specific against vulgarity , if a lady happens , unfortunately , to set her heart , what there is of it , meanly on mean things . About two o'clock Geoffrey rose , and with some slight assistance from his reverend host , struggled into his clothes . Then he lunched , and while he did so Mr. Granger poured his troubles into his sympathetic ear . `` My father was a Herefordshire farmer , Mr. Bingham , '' he said , `` and I was bred up to that line of life myself . He did well , my father did , as in those days a careful man might .