The bell stops at twenty past four, mid-swing, without slowing, and the silence in the tower is so total that Mione wakes up and thinks she has gone deaf.

CorvinaStopped. Six hours and twenty minutes. Nobody has ever had it go that long and come back.

Malfoid is still holding the rope and the rope is not holding her back any more, and she slides down it onto the stone floor and sits there like a coat.

MalfoidIt stopped because I stopped. I stopped wanting to leave about ten minutes to four and nobody said anything and I did not tell anybody.