eleven o'clock
`` In my young days the mourners used always to be given a pair of black gloves and a piece of black silk for their hats . Poor Louisa used to make the silk into dresses . She always said that twelve funerals gave her a new dress . '' Then he told Philip who had sent wreaths ; there were twenty-four of them already ; when Mrs. Rawlingson , wife of the Vicar at Ferne , had died she had had thirty-two ; but probably a good many more would come the next day ; the funeral would start at eleven o'clock from the vicarage , and they should beat Mrs. Rawlingson easily . Louisa never liked Mrs. Rawlingson . `` I shall take the funeral myself . I promised Louisa I would never let anyone else bury her . ''