Five O'Clock
Every one , except possibly Ronder , was aware that this was the first occasion for many years that any motion of Brandon 's had been defeated ... . Without waiting for any further business the Archdeacon gathered together his papers and , looking neither to right nor left , strode from the room . The Whispering Gallery Five O'Clock -- The Green Cloud The cloud seemed to creep like smoke from the funnel of the Cathedral tower . The sun was setting in a fiery wreath of bubbling haze , shading in rosy mist the mountains of grey stone . The little cloud , at first in the shadowy air light green and shaped like a ring , twisted spirally , then , spreading , washed out and lay like a pool of water against the smoking sunset . Green like the Black Bishop 's ring ... .