four o’clock
`` If she would only tell the truth -- if she would only tell ! '' Hugh Henfrey had not travelled to Monte Carlo without much careful reflection and many hours of wakefulness . He intended to clear up the mystery of his father 's death -- and more , the reason of that strange incomprehensible will which was intended to wed him to Louise . At four o'clock that afternoon he entered the Rooms to gain another surreptitious look at Mademoiselle . Yes ! She was there , still playing on as imperturbably as ever , with that half-suppressed sinister smile always upon her full red lips . Sight of her aroused his fury .