four
in the afternoon
She was actually in the small room with the low ceiling and the door -LRB- now shut -RRB- and the windows that revealed the green of leaves and the blue and gold of a sun-spangled sea . And her coat and hat and veil had been removed and were hanging from nails in the wall behind the door , and her clothing had been unfastened -- precisely as she dimly remembered everything that had happened with relation to the strange woman . She wore a little wrist-watch . It told her that the hour was after four in the afternoon . She began hurriedly to dress , or rather to repair the disorder of her garments , all the while struggling between surprise that she felt rested and well and strong , and a haunting suspicion that she had been tricked . Of the truth of this suspicion , confirmatory evidence presently overwhelmed her . Since that draught of champagne before the roadside inn shortly after sunrise , she had known nothing clearly .