about four in the
afternoon
_ He _ appeared to a learned doctor in a library , and the learned doctor described the phantom , not long ago , in the Athenaeum . `` Does the priest of your ` priest-hole ' walk ? '' I asked the squire one winter evening in the House of Strange Stories . Darkness had come to the rescue of the pheasants about four in the afternoon , and all of us , men and women , were sitting at afternoon tea in the firelit study , drowsily watching the flicker of the flame on the black panelling . The characters will introduce themselves , as they take part in the conversation . `` No , '' said the squire , `` even the priest does not walk . Somehow very few of the Jesuits have left ghosts in country houses .