About two o'clock Wednesday afternoon
`` Did you see Mr. Mainwaring during the day or evening ? '' `` I met him once or twice in the halls . '' `` When did you last see him ? '' `` About two o'clock Wednesday afternoon . '' `` State how you first heard of his death . '' `` I was working in the halls up-stairs about seven that morning and heard running back and forth , as if there was trouble . I went out into the front hall and met the butler , and he told me Mr. Mainwaring had been murdered . ''