midday
Chillon thought he had said sufficient . She was under his protectorship , otherwise he would not have alluded to the observance of class distinctions . He felt them personally in this case because of their seeming to stretch grotesquely by the pretentious heterodoxy of the young fellow , whom , nevertheless , thinking him over now that he was mentioned , he approved for his manliness in bluntly telling his origin and status . A chalet supplied them with fresh milk , and the inn of a village on a perch with the midday meal . Their appetites were princely and swept over the little inn like a conflagration . Only after clearing it did they remember the rearward pedestrian , whose probable wants Chillon was urged by Carthinia to speak of to their host . They pushed on , clambering up , scurrying down , tramping gaily , till by degrees the chambers of Carinthia 's imagination closed their doors and would no longer intercommunicate .