nearly five o'clock
I asked , while I was putting on my hat and overcoat . '' ` Any passer-by will point it out , ' Mr. Carter answered ; ` they do n't have a popular murder in the neighbourhood of Winchester every day ; and when they do , I make not the least doubt they know how to appreciate the advantage . You may depend upon it , the place is pretty well known . ' `` It was nearly five o'clock by this time . We went down the slippery oak-staircase , and out into the quiet street . A bleak wind was blowing down from the hills , and the rooks ' nests high up in the branches of the old trees about the cathedral were rocking like that legendary cradle in the tree-top . I had never been in Winchester before , and I was pleased with the quaint old houses , the towering cathedral , the flat meadows , and winding streams of water rippled by the wind .