half past nine o’clock
a vow is a vow . When I can not run I will walk , when I can not walk I will crawl after you -- comme ca ! '' Lady Belward did not appear at breakfast . Sir William and Gaston breakfasted alone at half past nine o'clock . The talk was of the stables and the estate generally . The breakfast-room looked out on a soft lawn , stretching away into a broad park , through which a stream ran ; and beyond was a green hillside . The quiet , the perfect order and discipline , gave a pleasant tingle to Gaston 's veins .