About three o'clock
`` I must not do anything rash , '' she told herself , carefully . `` I must arrive at Bad-Platten able to sit down beside him the moment I have taken off my jacket -- oh , without waiting to take off my jacket . '' She went into the hotel and ate some food , just to show herself how careful she had become . About three o'clock she set off . She had a fierce desire to get away from that heartless white stream and the crack of whips and the doleful pine woods , and at first she walked very quickly ; but she never got away from them , for they marched with her . It was not that day , but the next , that Grizel thought anything was marching with her . That day her head was quite clear , and she kept her promise to herself , and as soon as she felt tired she stopped for the night at a village inn .