About four o'clock
Ten minutes later he and Bertie were seen riding down the drive . That afternoon the wind , which had been rising steadily , brought a flurry of clouds up from the South-West . Formed out on the heart of the Atlantic , they sailed forward , swift and fleecy at first , like the skirmishing white shallops of a great fleet ; then , in serried masses , darkened the sun . About four o'clock they broke in rain , which the wind drove horizontally with a cold whiffling murmur . As youth and glamour die in a face before the cold rains of life , so glory died on the moor . The tors , from being uplifted wild castles , became mere grey excrescences . Distance failed .