about ten o'clock
All this she wrote , as though she felt that she ought to employ a high tone in defending her husband 's purpose ; but she broke down altogether in the few words of the postscript . `` Indeed , indeed I have done what I could ! '' Mr. Walker understood it all , both the high tone and the subsequent fall . On the Thursday morning , at about ten o'clock , a fly stopped at the gate of the Hogglestock Parsonage , and out of it there came two men . One was dressed in ordinary black clothes , and seemed from his bearing to be a respectable man of the middle class of life . He was , however , the superintendent of police for the Silverbridge district . The other man was a policeman , pure and simple , with the helmet-looking hat which has lately become common , and all the ordinary half-military and wholly disagreeable outward adjuncts of the profession .