one o'clock
Merchants were moving their offices , and even the Post Office and the Custom House were to be transferred to Greenwich . There were some who remained faithful throughout all , and who labored for the stricken , and whose names are not even written in the memory of their fellow-men . But the city had been so often ravaged before , that at the first sight there was one mere animal impulse of flight that seized upon all alike . At one o'clock , when some of the better streets had once more taken on their natural quiet , an ox-cart stood before the door of the Dolphs ' old house . A little behind it stood the family carriage , its lamps unlit . The horses stirred uneasily , but the oxen waited in dull , indifferent patience . Presently the door opened , and two men came out and awkwardly bore a plain coffin to the cart .