eleven o'clock Friday morning
retorted Tweetie . `` They 're perfectly stunning ; and I 'm going to have them . '' And she had them -- not that the aigret incident is important ; but it may serve to place the Greggs in their respective niches . At eleven o'clock Friday morning Mary Gowd called at the Gregg 's hotel , according to appointment . In far-away Batavia , Illinois , Mrs. Gregg had heard of Mary Gowd . And Mary Gowd , with her knowledge of everything Roman -- from the Forum to the best place at which to buy pearls -- was to be the staff on which the Greggs were to lean . `` My husband , '' said Mrs. Gregg ; `` my daughter Twee -- er -- Eleanora .