ten o'clock
The evenings were mortgaged to society . Clarissa had been more than a week in Paris before she had a morning to herself ; and even then there was Miss Granger to be disposed of , and Miss Granger 's curiosity to be satisfied . Mr. Granger had gone to breakfast at the Maison Dorée with a mercantile magnate from his own country -- a solemn commercial breakfast , whereat all the airy trifles and dainty compositions of fish , flesh , and fowl with which the butterfly youth of France are nourished , were to be set before unappreciative Britons . At ten o'clock Clarissa ordered her carriage . It was best to go in her own carriage , she thought , even at the risk of exciting the curiosity of servants . To send for a hired vehicle would have caused greater wonder ; to walk alone was impossible ; to walk with her nurse and child might have been considered eccentric . She could not even take an airing , however , without some discussion with Miss Granger .