one o’clock
Remember that there is a great responsibility laid upon you , '' and so on and so on . The jury withdrew and the court adjourned . People could get up , move about , exchange their accumulated impressions , refresh themselves at the buffet . It was very late , almost one o'clock in the night , but nobody went away : the strain was so great that no one could think of repose . All waited with sinking hearts ; though that is , perhaps , too much to say , for the ladies were only in a state of hysterical impatience and their hearts were untroubled . An acquittal , they thought , was inevitable . They all prepared themselves for a dramatic moment of general enthusiasm .