five o'clock
Wheresoever the Bishop looked he was confronted by a weeping nun . Suddenly Mother Sub-Prioress dried her eyes , holding herself once more in control . It had just occurred to her that the Bishop 's word could not be taken against the evidence of all their senses ! On that very morning , at five o'clock the Convent call to rise had been rung from _ within _ the Prioress 's cell ! So Mother Sub-Prioress dried her eyes , punished her nose for sharing in the general breakdown , and looking with belligerent eye at the Bishop , said : '' _ If _ the Reverend Mother _ be _ not within her cell , _ perhaps _ it will please you , my lord , to _ inform _ the Convent who is within it ! '' `` That point , '' said the Bishop , `` can speedily be settled . '' He took from his girdle the Prioress 's master-key , handed over to him before he left Warwick .