noon
The coach was to set off from an inn in Fleet Street , at noon , and would set Hugh down at his uncle 's door in time for dinner , the distance being twenty-eight miles . His uncle 's house was just two miles from the school . Phil would probably be there to meet his brother , and take him to Crofton in the afternoon . How to get rid of the hours till noon was the question . Hugh had had everything packed up , over which he had any control , for some days . He had not left himself a plaything of those which he might carry : and it frightened him that his mother did not seem to think of packing his clothes till after breakfast this very morning . When she entered his room for the purpose , he was fidgeting about , saying to himself that he should never be ready .