Ten minutes to ten
The two were looking for Gwenda . `` I thought mebbe something had ` appened t ' yo , '' she said . As if she had seen what had happened to her she hurried the child in out of her sight . Ten minutes to ten . In the small dull room Gwenda waited for the hour of her deliverance . She had taken up her sewing and her book . The Vicar sat silent , waiting , he too , with his hands folded on his lap .