noon
It suited him very well that his sister should be giving her attention to the Lump . From the Lump nothing was to be learned . Lady Salkeld 's coming made no difference to their lives . Pollyooly went on her early morning rambles with the Lump ; from breakfast to noon she did her lessons and then went for a sedate walk with Miss Belthorp . After lunch she played with the Lump till it was time to drive out to tea with the duke . Naturally she met the same people again and again , and was now on very friendly terms with some of them . The duke , regarding her with something of the feeling of an impresario , and finding that she was everywhere welcomed as an authentic angel child , began to take pride in displaying her .