twelve o’clock
The rest of Cowfold was Dissenting or `` went nowhere . '' There were three chapels ; one the chapel , orthodox , Independent , holding about seven hundred persons , and more particularly to be described presently ; the second Wesleyan , new , stuccoed , with grained doors and cast-iron railing ; the third , strict Baptist , ultra-Calvinistic , Antinomian according to the other sects , dark , down an alley , mean , surrounded by a small long-grassed graveyard , and named ZOAR in large letters over the long window in front . The `` went nowhere '' class was apparently not very considerable . On Sunday morning at twelve o'clock Cowfold looked as if it had been swept clean . It was only by comparison between the total number of church-goers and chapel-goers and the total population that it could be believed that there was anybody absent from the means of grace ; but if a view could have been taken of the back premises an explanation would have been discovered . Men and women `` did up their gardens , '' or found , for a variety of reasons , that they were forced to stay at home . In the evening they grew bolder , and strolled through the meadows .