three o'clock
Mr Arabin declared that the morning light at any rate was perfect , and deprecated any interference with the lime trees . And then they took a stroll out among the trim parterres , and Mr Arabin explained to Mrs Bold the difference between a naiad and a dryad , and dilated on vases and the shapes of urns . Miss Thorne busied herself among the pansies ; and her brother , finding it quite impracticable to give anything of a peculiarly Sunday tone to the conversation , abandoned the attempt , and had it out with the archdeacon about the Bristol guano . At three o'clock they again went into church ; and now Mr Arabin read the service and the archdeacon preached . Nearly the same congregation was present , with some adventurous pedestrians from the city , who had not thought the heat of the mid-day August sun too great to deter them . The archdeacon took his text from the Epistle of Philemon . ` I beseech thee for my son Onesimus , whom I have begotten in my bonds . '