eleven in the morning
The sacrilegious audacity of that proceeding is , I should think , unparalleled in the annals of crime . I checked my grinning subordinates by a frown . It was easy to see what was passing in their superficial minds . If I had not been able to look below the surface , I might , on observing two nicely dressed men and one nicely dressed woman enter a church before eleven in the morning on a week day , have come to the same hasty conclusion at which my inferiors had evidently arrived . As it was , appearances had no power to impose on _ me _ . I got out , and , followed by one of my men , entered the church . The other man I sent round to watch the vestry door .