eight o'clock
She chose to go there to-night , to spend there her last hour in London . The little chapel was fairly cool , and through a door very near the altar , open to the garden , came the scent of mignonette on the air . Besides the motionless figures at the altar-rail there was no one else in the chapel . At eight o'clock two small brown figures came in and knelt bowed down in the middle of the sanctuary . The two who had finished their watch rose and knelt by the side of those who relieved guard . Then the four rose together , and the two newcomers took up their station , and the others left them . And the incessant oblation of those lives went on .