five in the afternoon
When could he be here ? Was it possible that he might arrive this night ? I obtained the German equivalent for Bradshaw , and studied it till I thought I had made out that , supposing Eugen to receive the telegram in the shortest possible time , he might be here by half past eleven that night . It was now five in the afternoon . Six hours and a half -- and at the end of that time his non-arrival might tell me he could not be here before the morrow . I sat still , and now that the deed was done , gave myself up , with my usual enlightenment and discretion , to fears and apprehensions . The terrible look and tone of Graf von Rothenfels returned to my mind in full force .