2 a.m.
Now she ... has gone , and this is the one way left for any of us to show that we are sorry . '' Long afterwards , Queed thought that if Charles Weyland 's lashes had not glittered with sudden tears at that moment he would have refused her . But her lashes did so glitter , and he capitulated at once ; and turning instantly went heavy-hearted up the stairs . _ In a Country Churchyard , and afterwards ; of Friends : how they take your Time while they live , and then die , upsetting your Evening 's Work ; and what Buck Klinker saw in the Scriptorium at 2 a.m. _ Queed was caught , like many another rationalist before him , by the stirring beauty of the burial service of the English church . Fifi 's funeral was in the country , at a little church set down in a beautiful grove which reminds all visitors of the saying about God 's first temples . Near here Mrs. Paynter was born and spent her girlhood ; here Fifi , before her last illness , had come every Sabbath morning to the Sunday-school ; here lay the little strip of God 's acre that the now childless widow called her own . You come by the new electric line , one of those high-speed suburban roads which , all over the country , are doing so much to persuade city people back to the land .