10 A.M.
Under such circumstances he would not , if he could help it , consult anyone further , till advice would be useless . Should the archdeacon catch him , indeed , there would be much advice , and much consultation of a kind not to be avoided ; but he hoped better things ; and as he felt that he could not now converse on indifferent subjects , he resolved to see no one till after his interview with the attorney-general . He determined to take sanctuary in Westminster Abbey , so he again went thither in an omnibus , and finding that the doors were not open for morning service , he paid his twopence , and went in as a sightseer . It occurred to him that he had no definite place of rest for the day , and that he should be absolutely worn out before his interview if he attempted to walk about from 10 A.M. to 10 P.M. , so he sat himself down on a stone step , and gazed up at the figure of William Pitt , who looks as though he had just entered the church for the first time in his life and was anything but pleased at finding himself there . He had been sitting unmolested about twenty minutes when the verger asked him whether he would n't like to walk round . Mr Harding did n't want to walk anywhere , and declined , merely observing that he was waiting for the morning service . The verger , seeing that he was a clergyman , told him that the doors of the choir were now open , and showed him into a seat .