four o'clock
Tidings of Mr. Crawley 's fate reached the palace at Barchester on the afternoon of the day on which the magistrates had committed him . All such tidings travel very quickly , conveyed by imperceptible wires , and distributed by indefatigable message boys whom Rumour seems to supply for the purpose . Barchester is twenty miles from Silverbridge by road , and more than forty by railway . I doubt whether any one was commissioned to send the news along the actual telegraph , and yet Mrs. Proudie knew it before four o'clock . But she did not know it quite accurately . `` Bishop , '' she said , standing at her husband 's study door . `` They have committed that man to gaol .