three o'clock in the afternoon
Her own light and darkness mattered nothing now , and her personal and selfish fears had vanished before she reached Newlyn . She was thinking how she should raise an alarm , how she should tell his friends , who possibly imagined `` Mister Jan '' safe and comfortable in his cow-byre . But who were his friends and how should she approach them without such a step becoming known and getting talked about ? Her misery was stamped on her face when she at last returned to the white cottage at three o'clock in the afternoon of that day , and Mrs. Tregenza saw it there . `` God save us ! wheer you bin to , an ' what you bin ` bout ? You 'm so pasty an ' round-eyed as if you 'd bin piskey-led somewheers .