twenty-five minutes
past twelve
She experienced a feeling of intense peace and content . After the shocks of these last two days a stillness fell upon her spirit , her limbs relaxed and became as supple as though she had just left a bath . The only sensation that remained to her was one of heaviness somewhere , an indefinable load that weighed upon her . When she returned to her bedroom her eyes were at once directed towards the clock , the hands of which pointed to twenty-five minutes past twelve . Juliette 's assignation was for three o'clock . Two hours and a half must still elapse . She made the reckoning mechanically .