four
o'clock
-- she could not bear it . She imagined the phantom , and then she wanted him so intensely that she had to forget him . The aspect of certain days would be connected with some peculiarly mournful moments . She wondered which was the most depressing , the dark setting in at four o'clock and leaving her seven hours of drawing-room fancy work -LRB- for it disturbed her mother if she went to bed before eleven -RRB- , or the summer sun that would not go down . If only some kind stroke of misfortune had taken away all Mr. Symons ' money . Disagreeable poverty would have been a great comfort to her . She would have been forced to make an effort ; not to brood and concentrate herself on her misery .