About noon
`` By all means , Rose , we will go northwards , but how shall we go ? '' `` We 'll inquire at the post-office just round this corner , '' answered Primrose , with decision . Accordingly , having received some rather lucid instructions the girls found themselves in a few moments in an omnibus going towards Holloway . About noon they were landed there , and then their search began . Oh , the weariness of that long day ! Oh , the painful experience of the three ! They knew nothing about London prices -- they had not an idea whether they were being imposed upon or not .