about nineteen o'clock
After all , God was God -- He takes up the isles as a very little thing . Percy took out his office book , found Prime and St. Sylvester , signed himself with the cross , and began to pray . A minute later the two chaplains slipped in once more , and sat down ; and all was silent , save for that throb of the screw , and the strange whispering rush of air outside . It was about nineteen o'clock that the ruddy English conductor looked in at the doorway , waking Percy from his doze . `` Dinner will be served in half-an-hour , gentlemen , '' he said -LRB- speaking Esperanto , as the rule was on international cars -RRB- . `` We do not stop at Turin to-night . '' He shut the door and went out , and the sound of closing doors came down the corridor as he made the same announcement to each compartment .