ten o'clock
For that 's what democracy really means . '' Monsignor smiled at what he conceived to be a paradox . `` Well , I must go to the Cardinal , '' he said . `` It 's just on ten o'clock . '' CHAPTER II It was three weeks later that the Benedictines took formal possession of Westminster Abbey , and simultaneously that Pontifical High Mass was sung in the University churches of Oxford , Cambridge , and Durham , to mark the inauguration of their new life . Monsignor Masterman was appointed to attend upon the Cardinals in the Abbey ; and as he awoke that morning , it seemed to him once more as if he were living in a dream of strange and intoxicating unreality .