four o'clock
I resigned , not without a faint but undeniable tremor of relief , the part of a principal in the play . I have harped to you on this point of my relative importance in the story because it was as a mere super that I entered from the wings and it is as a super in the last act that I retire . I think it was the letter and package M. Kinaitsky sent down to the ship which scared me into obscurity . That and the news that the four o'clock express for Constantinople in which he had been travelling had been blown to atoms by the apostles of Liberty and Progress . You can say it completed the cure , if you like . To read that brief note of courteous and regretful reproach was like encountering a polite phantom . After recording his unalterable conviction that only death or a woman could have prevented an Englishman of honour from keeping an appointment , he begged to trespass so far upon my generous impulses as to send me the package , fully addressed to his brother in London .