About quarter past four
What would come of it ? The house was strangely silent ; Aunt Elizabeth sniffed into her handkerchief a good deal ; Mr. Magnus , his face strained with a look of intense fatigue , went out about some business . The blinds of the house wore down and all the rooms were bathed in a green twilight . About quarter past four Maggie went down into the Strand and found a cab . She gave the address and off they went . Sitting in the corner of the cab she seemed to be an entirely passive spectator of events that were being played before her . She knew , remotely , that Aunt Anne 's death had deeply affected her , that coming back to the old house had deeply affected her , and that this interview with Amy Warlock might simply fasten on her the fate that she had for many months now seen in front of her .