five o'clock in the afternoon
It was easy enough to find . At the village inn he was treated with tolerant contempt . These brown fellows were forever coming and going , to and fro , from the colonel 's . At five o'clock in the afternoon of the thirty-first day of December , this East Indian peered cautiously into the French window of the Hare bungalow . The picture he saw there sent a thrill into his heart . She was as fair and beautiful as an houri of Sa'adi . She sat at a desk , holding a long white envelope in her hand .