noon
One sniffed the dews , and could fancy fresh smells of stubble earth and dank woodland grass in the very streets of dirty Bevisham . Sound sleep , like hearty dining , endows men with a sense of rectitude , and sunlight following the former , as a pleasant spell of conversational ease or sweet music the latter , smiles a celestial approval of the performance : Lord Romfrey dismissed his anxieties . His lady slightly ruffled him at breakfast in a letter saying that she wished to join him . He was annoyed at noon by a message , wherein the wish was put as a request . And later arrived another message , bearing the character of an urgent petition . True , it might be laid to the account of telegraphic brevity . He saw Dr. Shrapnel , and spoke to him , as before , to thank him for the permission to visit his nephew .