four o'clock in the afternoon before
He must go out into the streets and see what was happening . The day wore on . He felt extraordinarily shy and self-conscious about the performance of a matter that had entered his mind with that surging uplift of his feelings . It was four o'clock in the afternoon before he took himself to it and then , leaving its place , he unexpectedly encountered Mabel . She was just going into the station . She had come in , as she had proposed , and she told him what she had said to Jones and what Jones had said to her . `` Abominably rude man . ''