three o'clock
Mr. Arabin declared that the morning light at any rate was perfect , and deprecated any interference with the lime-trees . And then they took a stroll out among the trim parterres , and Mr. Arabin explained to Mrs. Bold the difference between a naiad and a dryad , and dilated on vases and the shapes of urns . Miss Thorne busied herself among her pansies , and her brother , finding it quite impracticable to give anything of a peculiarly Sunday tone to the conversation , abandoned the attempt and had it out with the archdeacon about the Bristol guano . At three o'clock they again went into church , and now Mr. Arabin read the service and the archdeacon preached . Nearly the same congregation was present , with some adventurous pedestrians from the city , who had not thought the heat of the midday August sun too great to deter them . The archdeacon took his text from the epistle to Philemon . `` I beseech thee for my son Onesimus , whom I have begotten in my bonds . ''