eleven o’clock
A moment after she rushed to the house door , but only to see him turning the corner of the street Then she flew to the bedroom . Jack was ill of a cold -- she was nursing him in bed . But now she dressed him hurriedly , as if there were scarcely time to get to Westminster by the appointed hour . All was ready before eleven o'clock , but it was now raining , and she durst not wait with the child in the open air for longer than was necessary . But all at once the fear possessed her lest the police might come to the house and she be detained . Ignorant of the law , and convinced from her husband 's words that the stranger in rags had some sinister aim , she no sooner conceived the dread than she bundled into a hand-bag such few articles as it would hold and led the child hastily from the house . They walked to a tramway-line and had soon reached Westminster Bridge .