about eleven o'clock in the morning
So help me God ! '' The schoolmaster rose . Each of the twain felt that the interview could not comfortably merge in a friendly discussion of their recent experiences , after the manner of friends ; and when Jude had taken him round , and shown him some features of the renovation which the old cathedral was undergoing , Phillotson bade the young man good-day and went away . This visit took place about eleven o'clock in the morning ; but no Sue appeared . When Jude went to his dinner at one he saw his beloved ahead of him in the street leading up from the North Gate , walking as if no way looking for him . Speedily overtaking her he remarked that he had asked her to come to him at the cathedral , and she had promised . `` I have been to get my things from the college , '' she said -- an observation which he was expected to take as an answer , though it was not one .