Six o'clock
Since my time . '' That was the amount of information that the lawyer carried back with him to the great , dark bed on which he tossed to and fro , until the small hours of the morning began to grow large . It was a night of little ease to his toiling mind , toiling in mere darkness and besieged by questions . Six o'clock struck on the bells of the church that was so conveniently near to Mr. Utterson 's dwelling , and still he was digging at the problem . Hitherto it had touched him on the intellectual side alone ; but now his imagination also was engaged , or rather enslaved ; and as he lay and tossed in the gross darkness of the night and the curtained room , Mr. Enfield 's tale went by 15 -RRB- before his mind in a scroll of lighted pictures . He would be aware of the great field of lamps of a nocturnal city ; then of the figure of a man walking swiftly ; then of a child running from the doctor 's ; and then these met , and that human Juggernaut trod the child down and passed on regardless of her screams .