eleven o'clock
Very little shopping was done that morning , for every permutation and combination of Tilling society -LRB- with the exception , of course , of the cowards -RRB- had to be formed on the pavement with a view to the amplest possible discussion . Diva , as might have been expected , gave proof of her accustomed perfidy before long , for she certainly gave the Padre to understand that the chain of inductive reasoning was of her own welding and Elizabeth had to hurry after him to correct this grabbing impression ; but the discovery in itself was so great , that small false notes like these could not spoil the glorious harmony . Even Mr. Wyse abandoned his usual neutrality with regard to social politics and left his tall malacca cane in the chemist 's , so keen was his gusto , on seeing Miss Mapp on the pavement outside , to glean any fresh detail of evidence . By eleven o'clock that morning , the two duellists were universally known as `` the cowards , '' the Padre alone demurring , and being swampingly outvoted . He held -LRB- sticking up for his sex -RRB- that the Major had been brave enough to send a challenge -LRB- on whatever subject -RRB- to his friend , and had , though he subsequently failed to maintain that high level , shown courage of a high order , since , for all he knew , Captain Puffin might have accepted it . Miss Mapp was spokesman for the mind of Tilling on this too indulgent judgment . `` Dear Padre , '' she said , `` you are too generous altogether .