About noon
`` None in the least , my child , '' said grandmamma ; `` the persons who remember anything of those times are getting fewer and fewer every day . If young people , then , are wise , instead of always talking their own talk , as they are too apt to do , they will have a pleasure in listening to old persons , and in gathering up from them all they can tell of manners and customs , the very memories of which are now passing away . But now , Henry , my boy , you may understand why the Mistresses Vaughan always breakfasted in their own rooms ; they never chose to appear but in their full dress , and were glad to get an hour or two every morning unlaced , and without their hoops . `` About noon they all came swimming and sailing down into a large saloon , where they spent the rest of their morning . It was a vast low room , with bright polished oaken floors , and with only a bit of fine carpet in the middle of it . They each brought with them a bag for knotting , and they generally sat together in such state till it was time for their airing . `` This airing was taken in a coach-and-four ; and they generally went the same road and turned at the same place every day but Sunday throughout the week .