six o'clock
`` Your Eminence , I do n't understand . '' The Cardinal looked at him full . `` Why , '' he said , `` the Holy Father was accepted as Arbitrator of the East by the united Powers this morning . The news was in the Prime Ministers hands at six o'clock . But I 'm sorry he had to use it ; it would have been stronger without ... . Do n't you understand , Monsignor ? The House would have refused to vote otherwise . ''