twenty o'clock
`` Holiness . I had better begin a little way back . Their Eminences have not heard the details properly ... `` I received at Damascus , on last Friday week , inquiries from various prelates in different parts of the world , as to the actual measure concerning the new policy of persecution . At first I could tell them nothing positively , for it was not until after twenty o'clock that Cardinal Ruspoli , in Turin , informed me of the facts . Cardinal Malpas confirmed them a few minutes later , and the Cardinal Archbishop of Pekin at twenty-three . Before mid-day on Saturday I received final confirmation from my messengers in London . `` I was at first surprised that Cardinal Dolgorovski did not communicate it ; for almost simultaneously with the Turin message I received one from a priest of the Order of Christ Crucified in Moscow , to which , of course , I paid no attention .