half past six
Ernest now went home and occupied himself till luncheon with studying Dean Alford 's notes upon the various Evangelistic records of the Resurrection , doing as Mr Shaw had told him , and trying to find out not that they were all accurate , but whether they were all accurate or no . He did not care which result he should arrive at , but he was resolved that he would reach one or the other . When he had finished Dean Alford 's notes he found them come to this , namely , that no one yet had succeeded in bringing the four accounts into tolerable harmony with each other , and that the Dean , seeing no chance of succeeding better than his predecessors had done , recommended that the whole story should be taken on trust -- and this Ernest was not prepared to do . He got his luncheon , went out for a long walk , and returned to dinner at half past six . While Mrs Jupp was getting him his dinner -- a steak and a pint of stout -- she told him that Miss Snow would be very happy to see him in about an hour 's time . This disconcerted him , for his mind was too unsettled for him to wish to convert anyone just then . He reflected a little , and found that , in spite of the sudden shock to his opinions , he was being irresistibly drawn to pay the visit as though nothing had happened .