Later in the day, she found that she had over-estimated the interval of time that had passed while she was trying to put the clock right.

She had, in fact, set it exactly _a quarter of an hour too fast._ No safe opportunity of secretly putting the clock right again had occurred, until the last thing at night.

She had then moved the hands back to the right time.

At the hour of the evening when Mr.Dubourg had called on her mistress, she positively swore that the clock was a quarter of an hour too fast.

It had pointed, as her mistress had declared, to twenty-five minutes to nine--the right time then being, as Mr.Dubourg had asserted, twenty minutes past eight.
Questioned why she had refrained from giving this extraordinary evidence at the inquiry before the magistrate, she declared that in the remote Cornish village to which she had gone the next day, and in which her illness had detained her from that time, nobody had heard of the inquiry or the trial.