about noon
`` Do not set your mind on that , '' said Dr. Woodford , `` for Lord Cutts was so much pleased with you that he would do his utmost on your behalf . '' `` Much good that would do me , '' said poor Peregrine , setting his teeth as his tormentor came in . Meantime , in Mrs. Dudley 's parlour , while that good lady was assisting the surgeon at the dressing , Anne and her uncle exchanged information . Mr. Fellowes had arrived on foot at about noon , with his servant , having only been released after two hours by a traveller , and having been deprived both of money and horses , so that he could not proceed on his journey ; besides that he had given the alarm about the abduction , and raised the hue and cry at the villages on his way . There had been great distress , riding and searching , and the knowledge had been kept from poor Charles Archfield in his prison . Mr. Fellowes had gone on to London as soon as possible , and Dr. Woodford had just returned from a fruitless attempt to trace his niece , when Sir Edmund Nutley and Lord Cutts appeared , with the joyful tidings , which , however , could be hardly understood . Nothing , Dr. Woodford said , could be more thorough than the vindication of Charles Archfield .