five o'clock in the afternoon
She sees the hatchet ... . She is calling to me ... . She is entreating me ... . And I can do nothing ... '' It was at five o'clock in the afternoon that , on examining the list of the six names , he received that little inward shock which is a sort of signal of the truth that is being sought for . A light shot through his mind . It was not , to be sure , that brilliant light in which every detail is made plain , but it was enough to tell him in which direction to move . His plan of campaign was formed at once .