after the other two confusing answers about month of sundays, I googled a bit and saw I was correct about it. here is a link to check http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/in+a+month+of+Sundays

Present can have two meanings...one is the present of past-present-future other one is opposite of absent..present-absent Here, the second meaning of present is applicable. never in a month of Sundays== it is impossible to have a month without having sundays, thus this idiom means/indicates something which is impossible to happen. were to sound is almost like SOUNDS If the last stroke of midnight were to sound==If (something makes )the last stroke of midnight sound/ring. hope this helps. :)

Present in this case means to show. It is an action word (verb). When you present something or someone, it means you show it to a group of people. A month of sundays, basically means 4 sundays because there are roughly 4 weeks in a month. The idea of sunday here, i think, is how people usually dress up on sundays. So what i'm guessing it that they means, in 4 sundays of dressing up, they still would not have guess it was Cinderella who looked so beautiful. But I can't be sure without reading the full text. were to sound - the idea is the use of the basic form of the verb with the use of "were to", The idea is that this action has not happened yet and if this action were to happen... If "were sounding" was used instead, it would mean a continuous sound of the strokes of midnight which is not what the text is referring to. e.g. If I were to ask you,... This means I have not asked you yet, but if I asked,... Hope this helped! :)

"I shall present you at Court." = I shall bring you to (the royal) Court / I shall introduce you at Court. "a month of Sundays" = an idiomatic expression meaning "a very long period of time". In this context, the suggestion is that the sisters never would have guessed it, even if they had a very long time to guess. "...were to sound" = this is perfectly correct; remember this is a hypothetical situation here. Adding to that, the text means a single chime, not a repeated chime (which "sounding" implies).