nearly one o'clock
Evidently a presentiment . For an hour and a half by my watch , but five or six by my nerves , I paced the lonely , sequestered halls in the lower regions of the castle . Two or three times I was sure that my watch had stopped , the hands seemed so stationary . The third time I tried to wind it , I broke the mainspring , but as it was nearly one o'clock not much harm was done . That one little sentence , _ `` Have you deserted me ? '' _ grew to be a voluminous indictment . I could think of nothing else .