nine o'clock
But the immediate effect would be the triumph of the Cave , a new direction given to current politics . That no one doubted . Marsham was lost in tumultuous thought . The truth was that the two articles in the _ Herald _ of that morning , which had arrived at Tallyn by nine o'clock , had struck him with nothing less than consternation . Ever since his interview with Barrington , he had persuaded himself that in it he had laid the foundations of party reunion ; and he had since been eagerly scanning the signs of slow change in the attitude of the party paper , combined -- as they had been up to this very day -- with an unbroken personal loyalty to Ferrier . But the article of this morning had shown a complete -- and in Oliver 's opinion , as he read it at the breakfast-table -- an extravagant _ volte-face _ . It amounted to nothing less than a vehement appeal to the new Prime Minister to intrust the leadership of the House of Commons , at so critical a moment , to a man more truly in sympathy with the forward policy of the party .