About ten o'clock
Long before morning he had resolved that Godfrey should die . He had expected a difficult task , but lo ! it was unbelievably easy . About ten o'clock that day he had found Sir Edmund in the Strand . He walked hurriedly as if on urgent business , and Lovel had followed him up through Covent Garden , across the Oxford road , and into the Marylebone fields . There the magistrate 's pace had slackened , and he had loitered like a truant schoolboy among the furze and briars . His stoop had deepened , his head was sunk on his breast , his hands twined behind him .