one o’clock
Fraulein Schult , who came from one of the German cantons of Switzerland , was an ideal ` promeneuse ' . She never was tired and she was well-informed . The number of things that could be learned from her during a walk was absolutely incredible . Madame de Nailles , therefore , after a time , gave up to her , not without apparent regret , the duty of accompanying Jacqueline , while she herself fulfilled those duties to society which the most devoted of mothers can not wholly avoid ; but the stepmother and stepdaughter were always to be seen together at mass at one o'clock ; together they attended the Cours -LRB- that system of classes now so much in vogue -RRB- and also the weekly instruction given in the catechism ; and if Madame de Nailles , when , at night , she told her husband all she had been doing for Jacqueline during the day -LRB- she never made any merit of her zeal for the child 's welfare -RRB- , added : `` I left Jacqueline in this place or in that , where Mademoiselle Schult was to call for her , '' M. de Nailles showed no disposition to ask questions , for he well understood that his wife felt a certain delicacy in telling him that she had been to pay a brief visit to her own relatives , who , she knew , were distasteful to him . He had , indeed , very soon discerned in them a love of intrigue , a desire to get the most they could out of him , and a disagreeable propensity to parasitism . With the consummate tact she showed in everything she did , Madame de Nailles kept her own family in the background , though she never neglected them . She was always doing them little services , but she knew well that there were certain things about them that could not but be disagreeable to her husband .