nine o'clock in the morning
THE train had been greatly delayed during the night between Pisa and Civita Vecchia , and it was close upon nine o'clock in the morning when , after a fatiguing journey of twenty-five hours ' duration , Abbe Pierre Froment at last reached Rome . He had brought only a valise with him , and , springing hastily out of the railway carriage amidst the scramble of the arrival , he brushed the eager porters aside , intent on carrying his trifling luggage himself , so anxious was he to reach his destination , to be alone , and look around him . And almost immediately , on the Piazza dei Cinquecento , in front of the railway station , he climbed into one of the small open cabs ranged alongside the footwalk , and placed the valise near him after giving the driver this address : `` Via Giulia , Palazzo Boccanera . '' * * Boccanera mansion , Julia Street .