four in the afternoon
But when a week or two had passed , and all the horizon still remained as vacant of Bellston as before , Nicholas and she could talk of the event with calm wonderment . Why had he come , to go again like this ? And then there set in a period of resigned surmise , during which So like , so very like , was day to day , that to tell of one of them is to tell of all . Nicholas would arrive between three and four in the afternoon , a faint trepidation influencing his walk as he neared her door . He would knock ; she would always reply in person , having watched for him from the window . Then he would whisper -- ` He has not come ? ' ` He has not , ' she would say .