ten o'clock
-LRB- II -RRB- It would be charitable , I think , to suppress the name of the small market-town where the trial was held . The excellent magistrates who conducted it certainly did their best under very difficult circumstances ; for what are you to do if a man accused of theft cordially pleads guilty ? and yet , certainly it would distress them to hear of a very obvious miscarriage of justice executed at their hands . On Friday morning at ten o'clock the vehicles began to arrive -- the motor of the country gentleman , the dog-cart of the neighboring rector , and the brougham of the retired general . It was the General who presided . The court-room was not more dismal than court-rooms usually are . When I visited it on my little pilgrimage , undertaken a few months ago , it had been repainted and the woodwork grained to represent oak .