one o'clock
I am going out now , and at one o'clock Rosie will give you some dinner . Take no notice of her if she teases you . Mind me , and not the servants -- they are nothing . '' Miss Starbrow then changed her dress and went out , leaving Fan to her own devices , wondering what it was that she could do for her mistress , and feeling a little trouble about the maid who would give her her dinner at one o'clock ; and after a while she went to explore that apartment at the back Miss Starbrow had spoken of . It was a large room , nearly square , with cream-coloured walls and dark red dado , and a polished floor , partly covered with a Turkish carpet ; but there was very little furniture in it , and the atmosphere seemed chill and heavy , for it was the old unrenewed air of a room that was never used . On a large centre table a number of artistic objects were lying together in a promiscuous jumble : Japanese knick-knacks ; an ivory card-case that had lost its cover , and a broken-bladed paper-knife ; glove and collar and work-boxes of sandal-wood , mother-of-pearl , and papier-mâché , with broken hinges ; faded fans and chipped paper-weights ; gorgeous picture-books with loosened covers , and a magnificent portrait-album which had been deflowered and had nothing left in it but the old and ugly , the commonplace middle-aged , and the vapid young ; with many other things besides , all more or less defective . This round table seemed like an asylum and last resting-place of things which had never been useful , and had ceased to be ornamental , which were yet not quite bad enough to be thrown into the dust-bin .