one o'clock
The Rector spoke too long ; every one felt that . But at length he finished . The bands performed the Doxology , and the immense multitudes began to disperse by the eight streets that radiate from the Square . At the same time one o'clock struck , and the public-houses opened with their customary admirable promptitude . Respectable persons , of course , ignored the public-houses and hastened homewards to a delayed dinner . But in a town of over thirty thousand souls there are sufficient dregs to fill all the public-houses on an occasion of ceremonial excitement . Constance saw the bar of the Vaults crammed with individuals whose sense of decent fitness was imperfect .