nine o'clock
`` Ah , we shall need the laymen in the pulpits , Mr. Hubbell , '' he said quickly . `` A great spiritual movement must be primarily a lay movement . And I promise you you shall not lack for opportunity . '' At nine o'clock that evening , when a reprieve came , Hodder went out . Anxiety on the score of Kate Marcy , as well as a desire to see Mr. Bentley and tell him of the conversation with the bishop , directed his steps toward Dalton Street . And Hodder had , indeed , an intention of confiding to his friend , as one eminently entitled to it , the news of his engagement to Alison Parr . Nothing , however , had been heard of Kate .