about noon
In his despair , therefore , Sir Marmaduke had gone to Mr. Glascock , and it was soon arranged that the two gentlemen should renew the search at Siena together , without having with them either Mrs. Trevelyan or the courier . Mr. Glascock knew the ways of the people better than did Sir Marmaduke , and could speak the language . He obtained a passport to the good offices of the police of Siena , and went prepared to demand rather than to ask for assistance . They started very early , before breakfast , and on arriving at Siena at about noon , first employed themselves in recruiting exhausted nature . By the time that they had both declared that the hotel at Siena was the very worst in all Italy , and that a breakfast without eatable butter was not to be considered a breakfast at all , they had become so intimate that Mr. Glascock spoke of his own intended marriage . He must have done this with the conviction on his mind that Nora Rowley would have told her mother of his former intention , and that Lady Rowley would have told Sir Marmaduke ; but he did not feel it to be incumbent on himself to say anything on that subject . He had nothing to excuse .