noon
His Lordship was almost as closely secluded as her Ladyship . He did , indeed , go out to the stables , wrapped up in furs , and found fault with everything he saw there . And he had himself driven round the park . But he did not get up on any of these days till noon , and took all his meals by himself . The English servants averred that during the whole of this time he never once saw the Marchioness or the baby ; but then the English servants could not very well have known what he saw or what he did not see . But this was very certain , that during those three days he did not go to Cross Hall , or see any one of his own family . Mrs. Toff in the gloaming of the evening , on the third day , hurried across the park to see -- the young ladies as she still called them .