About four o'clock
But calmly considered it was not likely that such a severance as now existed would ever close up : she would have to live on as a painful object , isolated , and out of place . She had used to think of the heath alone as an uncongenial spot to be in ; she felt it now of the whole world . Towards evening on the sixth her determination to go away again revived . About four o'clock she packed up anew the few small articles she had brought in her flight from Alderworth , and also some belonging to her which had been left here : the whole formed a bundle not too large to be carried in her hand for a distance of a mile or two . The scene without grew darker ; mud-coloured clouds bellied downwards from the sky like vast hammocks slung across it , and with the increase of night a stormy wind arose ; but as yet there was no rain . Eustacia could not rest indoors , having nothing more to do , and she wandered to and fro on the hill , not far from the house she was soon to leave . In these desultory ramblings she passed the cottage of Susan Nunsuch , a little lower down than her grandfather 's .