ten in the morning
Wogan repeated to himself the resolve which he had made , though with an alteration . `` The King must marry the Princess , '' he had said ; now he said , `` The Princess must marry the King . '' He began hurriedly to assure her that the King had doubted his capacity to bring the enterprise to a favourable issue , but that now he would without doubt return . Cardinal Origo would tell her more upon that head if she would be good enough to receive him at ten in the morning ; and while Wogan was yet speaking , a torch waved , and amongst that close-pressed throng of faces below him in the street , one sprang to his view with a remarkable distinctness , a face most menacing and vindictive . It was the face of Harry Whittington . Just for a second it shone out , angles and lines so clearly revealed that it was as though the crowd had vanished , and that one contorted face glared alone at the windows in a flare of hell-fire . Clementina saw the face too , for she drew back instinctively within the curtains of the window .