eleven o'clock
It only makes the difference greater , and ' t is wider than he knows already . And yet a woman can marry beneath her without loss ; but for a man it is ruin . '' She went up to his room and made it neat , which was ever in disorder on his leaving , and then she went to a western window and looked into the far distance . Every Sabbath at eleven o'clock , or as soon thereafter as the people were seated -- consideration was always shown to distant figures coming down from the high glen -- Carmichael held what might be called High Mass in the Free Kirk . Nothing was used in praise but the Psalms of David , with an occasional Paraphrase sanctioned by usage and sound teaching . The prayers were expected to be elaborate in expression and careful in statement , and it was then that they prayed for the Queen and Houses of Parliament . And the sermon was the event to which the efforts of the minister and the thoughts of the people had been moving for the whole week .