ten o'clock
`` Forty-three minutes . '' `` Oh , Lord -- '' Gwenda laughed the laugh of brave nerves tortured . From her sofa beyond the table Alice sighed . At ten o'clock Essy Gale , the maid-servant , would come in from the kitchen and the Vicar from the inner room . And Essy would put the Bible and Prayer-book on the table , and the Vicar would read Prayers . That was all they were waiting for . It was all that could happen .