noon
`` Here 's old Edmundson . Clasp your hands in ecstasy , Phoebe . Mum says you and he have got to fall in love and marry one another ; so make haste about it . He 's not an ill piece , only you 'll find he wo n't get up before noon unless you squirt water in his face . Now then , fall to , and say some pretty things to one another ! '' Of course Molly had taken the most effectual way possible to prevent any such occurrence . Phoebe did not dare to lift her eyes ; and the chaplain was , if possible , the shyer of the two , and had been dragged there against his will by invincible Molly .