twenty minutes past five in the morning
Drayton recognized Mr. Augustin Threlfall , that Cabinet Minister made notorious by his encounters with the Women 's Franchise Union . Last year Miss Maud Blackadder had stalked him in the Green Park and lamed him by a blow from her hunting-crop . This year his wife , Lady Victoria Threlfall , had headed the June raid on the House of Commons . And here he was at twenty minutes past five in the morning waiting to take her out of prison . And here was Drayton , waiting for Dorothea , who was not his wife yet . `` Anyhow , '' said the Cabinet Minister , `` we 've done them out of their Procession . '' `` What Procession ? ''