eleven o'clock
What has taken place in our lives is truly wonderful . My daily prayer is that these happy days may last . '' Governor Sawyer sat in the Executive Chamber at the State House . It was eleven o'clock on the morning following the festivities at Fernborough . Quincy and Alice had staid over night at the Hawkins ' House , and Ezekiel in the morning urged them strongly to wait a day and see what great improvements he had made on the old farm which had been so neglected during the last years of Mrs. Putnam 's life . But Quincy said his presence in Boston was imperative , that certain matters required his attention , and so the earliest train brought him and his wife to the city . Quincy left the carriage under the arch at the State House .