nearly six o'clock
Again Mildred was tempted to ask him if she might lend him the money to go to Paris . She raised her eyes to his -LRB- he wondered what was passing in her mind -RRB- , but he did not find courage to speak until some days later . He had asked her to come to his studio to see a picture he had begun . It was nearly six o'clock ; Mildred had been there nearly an hour ; the composition had been exhaustively admired ; but something still unsaid seemed to float in the air , and every moment that something seemed to grow more imminent . ` You are decided to go to France . When do you leave ? ' ` Some time next week .