noon
He was rejoiced by Lord Adderwood 's invitation , and hung to him after the lunch ; for a horrible prospect of a bachelor dinner intimated astonishingly that he must have become unawares a domesticated man . The solitary later meal of a bachelor was consumed , if the word will suit a rabbit 's form of feeding . He fatigued his body by walking the streets and the bridge of the Houses of Parliament , and he had some sleep under a roof where a life like death , or death apeing life , would have seemed to him the Joshua Abnett , if he had been one to take up images . Next day he was under the obligation to wait at home till noon . Shortly before noon a noise of wheels drew him to the window . A young lady , in whom he recognized Aminta 's little school friend , of some name , stepped out of a fly . He met her in the hall .