about two o'clock
DEAREST MARY , I suppose you will have heard before you get this of the dreadful murder that has taken place here , and which has so startled and horrified us , that we hardly know what we are doing even yet . It is hard to say why a thing should be worse because it is close , but it certainly is so . Had it been in the next parish , or even further off in this parish , I do not think that I should feel it so much , and then we knew the old man so well ; and then , again , -- which makes it worst of all , -- we all of us are unable to get rid of a suspicion that one whom we knew , and was liked , has been a participator in the crime . It seems that it must have been about two o'clock on Sunday morning that Mr. Trumbull was killed . It was , at any rate , between one and three . As far as they can judge , they think that there must have been three men concerned . You remember how we used to joke about poor Mr. Trumbull 's dog .