About three o'clock
`` Ow do yer make it out ? ' cried Sawkins . But their curiosity had to remain unsatisfied for the time being because Crass announced that it was ` just on it ' . True Freedom About three o'clock that afternoon , Rushton suddenly appeared and began walking silently about the house , and listening outside the doors of rooms where the hands were working . He did not succeed in catching anyone idling or smoking or talking . The nearest approach to what the men called ` a capture ' that he made was , as he stood outside the door of one of the upper rooms in which Philpot and Harlow were working , he heard them singing one of Sankey 's hymns -- ` Work ! for the night is coming ' .