five o'clock
I told him I thought five o'clock this afternoon would be a convenient time . '' Miriam assented , but not without betraying surprise and uneasiness . Subsequently she just mentioned to Eleanor that she would receive the visitor in her own sitting-room . There , as five o'clock drew near , she waited in painful agitation . What it was Mallard 's purpose to say to her she could not with any degree of certainty conjecture . Had Reuben told him of the part she had played in connection with that eventful day at Pompeii ? What would be his tone ?