four o’clock in the morning
He is gone mad again ! '' CHAPTER XXXII . Coronation Day . Let us go backward a few hours , and place ourselves in Westminster Abbey , at four o'clock in the morning of this memorable Coronation Day . We are not without company ; for although it is still night , we find the torch-lighted galleries already filling up with people who are well content to sit still and wait seven or eight hours till the time shall come for them to see what they may not hope to see twice in their lives -- the coronation of a King . Yes , London and Westminster have been astir ever since the warning guns boomed at three o'clock , and already crowds of untitled rich folk who have bought the privilege of trying to find sitting-room in the galleries are flocking in at the entrances reserved for their sort . The hours drag along tediously enough .