about five o'clock
If Dr Proudie could be instigated to take the matter up warmly , he might manage a good deal while staying at the archbishop 's palace . Feeling this very strongly Mr Slope determined to sound the bishop out that very afternoon . He was to start on the following morning to London , and therefore not a moment could be lost with safety . He went into the bishop 's study about five o'clock , and found him still sitting alone . It might have been supposed that he had hardly moved since the little excitement occasioned by the walk to the dean 's door . He still wore on his face that dull dead look of half unconscious suffering . He was doing nothing , reading nothing , thinking of nothing , but simply gazing on vacancy when Mr Slope for the second time that day entered his room .