about two o'clock
At the news that his audience was yet again postponed Pierre had felt keenly disappointed . However , as the whole day was at his disposal , he willingly accepted the / attache 's / offer . They lunched in front of St. Peter 's , in a little restaurant of the Borgo , most of whose customers were pilgrims , and the fare , as it happened , was far from good . Then at about two o'clock they set off for the museum , skirting the basilica by way of the Piazza della Sagrestia . It was a bright , deserted , burning district ; and again , but in a far greater degree , did the young priest experience that sensation of bare , tawny , sun-baked majesty which had come upon him while gazing into the Court of San Damaso . Then , as he passed the apse of St. Peter 's , the enormity of the colossus was brought home to him more strongly than ever : it rose like a giant bouquet of architecture edged by empty expanses of pavement sprinkled with fine weeds . And in all the silent immensity there were only two children playing in the shadow of a wall .