eight o'clock
We walked to King 's Cross , and I put Alice without regret in the train for Cambridge . The same night a vast meeting of medical men had been summoned at the Queen 's Hall , with the object of discussing the nature of the strange visitation , and the measures that should be adopted . Doctors came from every part of the country . The meeting began at eight o'clock , and Sir Jeremy Jones , the President of the Royal College of Physicians , opened the discussion with a paper in which the most obvious features of the disease were briefly tabulated . The great Hall was packed . Sarakoff and I got seats in the front row of the gallery . Sir Jeremy Jones , a large bland man , with beautiful silver grey hair , wearing evening dress , and pince-nez , stood up on the platform amid a buzz of talk .