eleven o'clock in the morning
Clarissa took a couple of turns along one of the walks with Mrs. Brobson , and then , as they were going back towards the gate , she said , as carelessly as she could manage to say : `` There is a person living somewhere near here whom I want to see , Mrs. Brobson . I 'll leave you and baby in the gardens for half an hour or so , while I go and pay my visit . '' Mrs. Brobson stared . It was not an hour in the day when any lady she had ever served was wont to pay visits ; and that Mrs. Granger of Arden Court should traverse a neighbourhood of narrow streets and tall houses , on foot and alone , to call upon her acquaintance at eleven o'clock in the morning , seemed to her altogether inexplicable . `` You 'll take the carriage , wo n't you , ma'am ? '' she said , with undisguised astonishment . `` No , I shall not want the carriage ; it 's very near .