one in the afternoon
The lady lays her face upon the nurse 's breast , draws her close in her embrace with both arms , murmurs a blessing and the words , `` Kiss him for me ! '' and is gone . * * * * * Day of the month and year , the first Sunday in October , one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven . London Time by the great clock of Saint Paul 's , half-past one in the afternoon . The clock of the Hospital for Foundling Children is well up with the Cathedral to-day . Service in the chapel is over , and the Foundling children are at dinner . There are numerous lookers-on at the dinner , as the custom is .