six o'clock
And it is a fact that within five minutes of her arrival she was down on her knees by her mother , with her face hidden in her mother 's lap , crying her heart out . By the time she remembered Frank and ran out into the street , he had been gone more than twenty minutes . * * * * * One of the priests attached to Westminster Cathedral happened to have a pause about half-past nine o'clock in his hearing of confessions . He had been in his box without a break from six o'clock , and he was extremely tired and stiff about the knees . He had said the whole of his office during intervals , and he thought he would take a little walk up and down the south aisle to stretch his legs . So he unlatched the little door of his confessional , leaving the light burning in case someone else turned up ; he slipped off his stole and came outside . The whole aisle , it seemed , was empty , though there was still a sprinkling of folks in the north aisle , right across the great space of the nave ; and he went down the whole length , down to the west end to have a general look up the Cathedral .