eleven o'clock
Who had or had not the right of entry into it , it might be difficult to say ; but the people of Barchester believed that it belonged to the dean , and the clergymen of Barchester believed that it belonged to the chapter . On the morning in question most of the resident clergymen who constituted the chapter , and some few others , were here assembled , and among them as usual the archdeacon towered with high authority . He had heard of the dean 's fit before he was over the bridge which led into the town , and had at once come to the well-known clerical trysting place . He had been there by eleven o'clock , and had remained ever since . From time to time the medical men who had been called in came through from the deanery into the library , uttered little bulletins , and then returned . There was , it appears , very little hope of the old man 's rallying , indeed no hope of anything like a final recovery . The only question was whether he must die at once speechless , unconscious , stricken to death by his first heavy fit , or whether by due aid of medical skill he might not be so far brought back to this world as to become conscious of his state and enabled to address one prayer to his Maker before he was called to meet Him face to face at the judgement seat .