morning about twelve o’clock
-- I should recommend a cooling draught of some kind . Look in at a chemist 's as you walk on . ' The heavens did not fall before the marriage-day , and the wedded pair betook themselves for a few weeks to the Continent . They had been back again and established in their house at Earl 's Court for a month , when one morning about twelve o'clock Jasper dropped in , as though casually . Dora was writing ; she had no thought of entirely abandoning literature , and had in hand at present a very pretty tale which would probably appear in The English Girl . Her boudoir , in which she sat , could not well have been daintier and more appropriate to the charming characteristics of its mistress . Mrs Whelpdale affected no literary slovenliness ; she was dressed in light colours , and looked so lovely that even Jasper paused on the threshold with a smile of admiration .