noon
She read off the first two sentences . ` We can have a carriage here , Chillon ; order a carriage ; I shall get as much sleep in a carriage as in a bed : I shall enjoy driving at night , ' she said immediately , and strongly urged it and forced him to yield , the manager observing that a carriage could be had . In the privacy of her room , admiring the clear flowing hand , she read the words , delicious in their strangeness to her , notwithstanding the heavy news , as though they were sung out of a night-sky : ` Most picturesque of Castles ! May none these marks efface , For they appeal from Tyranny ... ' ` We start at noon to-day . Sailing orders have been issued , and I could only have resisted them in my own person by casting myself overboard . I go like the boat behind the vessel . You were expected yesterday , at latest this morning .