midday
`` Dress ? '' `` No . '' And they parted , a subtle antagonism alive within them . Holly and her father arrived by a midday train . It was her first visit to the city of spires and dreams , and she was very silent , looking almost shyly at the brother who was part of this wonderful place . After lunch she wandered , examining his household gods with intense curiosity . Jolly 's sitting-room was panelled , and Art represented by a set of Bartolozzi prints which had belonged to old Jolyon , and by college photographs -- of young men , live young men , a little heroic , and to be compared with her memories of Val .