two o'clock
At Redrutin she emerged from the railway carnage in the black attire purchased at the shop , having during the transit made the change in the empty compartment she had chosen . The other clothes were now in the bandbox and parcel . Leaving these at the cloak-room she proceeded onward , and after a wary survey reached the side of a hill whence a view of the burial ground could be obtained . It was now a little before two o'clock . While Baptista waited a funeral procession ascended the road . Baptista hastened across , and by the time the procession entered the cemetery gates she had unobtrusively joined it . In addition to the schoolmaster 's own relatives -LRB- not a few -RRB- , the paragraph in the newspapers of his death by drowning had drawn together many neighbours , acquaintances , and onlookers .