four o'clock
She saw him that way in her dreams -- in the court under the massive somber walls , with a troubled frown over his eyes . It seemed to her that , reaching up , she smoothed it away as they stood together in a darkness with the fountains , the hedges , dead , the world with never a sound sleeping in the prison of winter . Linda thought about Dodge Pleydon on a warm evening of the following May . At four o'clock , in a hotel , Pansy had been married ; and the entire Feldt connection had risen to a greater height of clamorous cheer than ever before . Extravagant unseasonable dishes , wines and banked flowers were lavishly mingled with sentimental speeches , healths and tears . Linda had been acutely restless , impatient of all the loud good humor and stupid compliments . The sense of her isolation from their life was unbearably keen .