eleven o'clock in the morning
Judge Bramber was to him simply pretentious , and a Secretary of State no better than any other man . In this frame of mind how was it probable that he should do any good at the Home Office ? But in this frame of mind he went to the Home Office , and asked boldly for the great man . It was then eleven o'clock in the morning and neither had the great man , nor even any of the deputy great men , as yet made their appearance . Mr. Caldigate of course fell back upon his old opinion as to public functionaries , and , mentally , applied opprobrious epithets to men who , taking the public pay , could not be at their posts an hour before mid-day . He was not aware that the great man and the first deputy great man were sitting in the House of Commons at 2 A.M. on that morning , and that the office generally was driven by the necessity of things to accommodate itself to Parliamentary exigencies . Then he was asked his business .