four o'clock
And , d'ye know , we 've never been gouged on the price yet . '' It was a stag lunch . As Forrest explained , the girls were `` hen-partying . '' `` I doubt you 'll see a soul of them till four o'clock , when Ernestine , that 's one of Paula 's sisters , is going to wallop me at tennis -- at least so she 's threatened and pledged . '' And Graham sat through the lunch , where only men sat , took his part in the conversation on breeds and breeding , learned much , contributed a mite from his own world-experiences , and was unable to shake from his eyes the persistent image of his hostess , the vision of the rounded and delicate white of her against the dark wet background of the swimming stallion . And all the afternoon , looking over prize Merinos and Berkshire gilts , continually that vision burned up under his eyelids . Even at four , in the tennis court , himself playing against Ernestine , he missed more than one stroke because the image of the flying ball would suddenly be eclipsed by the image of a white marble figure of a woman that strove and clung on the back of a great horse .