Four o'clock
After a vain discussion for the right of exit with one or two of the attendants , I abandoned myself to this hope , and began studying my cyclopædia . It was sufficiently amusing to see ten thousand people resign themselves to the same task , and affect to be unconcerned about the green and red figures which were to divide the `` profits . '' I tried to make out who were as anxious to get out of that tawdry den as I was . Four o'clock struck , and the distribution was not done . I began to be very impatient . What if Fausta fell into trouble ? I knew , or hoped I knew , that she would struggle to the Astor Library , as to her only place of rescue and refuge , -- her asylum .