eight o’clock
All this she set her heart on , but how could she achieve it ? All that day she drew her needle through her embroidery with the obtuse concentration of a girl who , like Agnes , seems to be thinking of nothing , but who is reflecting on things in general so deeply , that her artifice is unfailing . As a result of this profound meditation , Rosalie thought she would go to confession . Next morning , after Mass , she had a brief interview with the Abbe Giroud at Saint-Pierre , and managed so ingeniously that the hour of her confession was fixed for Sunday morning at half-past seven , before the eight o'clock Mass. . She committed herself to a dozen fibs in order to find herself , just for once , in the church at the hour when the lawyer came to Mass. . Then she was seized with an impulse of extreme affection for her father ; she went to see him in his workroom , and asked him for all sorts of information on the art of turning , ending by advising him to turn larger pieces , columns . After persuading her father to set to work on some twisted pillars , one of the difficulties of the turner 's art , she suggested that he should make use of a large heap of stones that lay in the middle of the garden to construct a sort of grotto on which he might erect a little temple or Belvedere in which his twisted pillars could be used and shown off to all the world .