noon
From John 's house in Augustus Road , from Henry 's house in Roehampton Lane , from the house of the Levines in St. John 's Wood , there was now an incessant converging upon Brodrick 's house . The women took an unwearying and unwandering interest in Hugh 's amazing son . -LRB- It was a girl they had expected . -RRB- First thing in the morning , or at noon , or in the early evening at his bed-time , John 's wife , Mabel , came with her red-eyed , sad-hearted worship . Winny Heron hung about him and Jane for ever . Jane discovered in Sophy and in Frances an undercurrent of positive affection that set from her child to her . John Brodrick regarded her with solemn but tender approval , and Henry -LRB- who might have owed her a grudge for upsetting his verdict -RRB- , Henry loved her even more than he approved .