ten o'clock
Henri Larochejaquelin returned to Durbellière . The Curé of St. Laud went to his own parish , to perform mass among his own people on the following morning , and Jacques Chapeau , according to agreement , took up his quarters at the smith 's house in Echanbroignes . On the following morning , he and Annot , and most of the young men and women of the village walked over to St. Laud 's to receive mass from Father Jerome , and to hear the discourse which he had promised to give respecting the duties of the people in the coming times . The people , as in olden days , were crowded round the church about half-past ten o'clock ; but the doors of the church were closed . The revolt in La Vendée had already gone far enough to prevent the possibility of the constitutional priests officiating in the churches to which they had been appointed by the National Assembly ; but it had not yet gone far enough to enable the old nonjuring Cures to resume generally their own places in their own churches : the people , however , now crowded round the church of St. Laud 's , till they should learn where on that day Father Jerome would perform mass . The church of St. Laud 's did not stand in any village , nor was it surrounded even by a cluster of cottages . It stood by itself on the side of a narrow little road , and was so completely surrounded by beech and flowering ash trees , that a stranger would not know that he was in the neighbourhood of a place of worship till it was immediately in front of him .