three o'clock in the morning
looked in silence from one : to the other ; from the little ivory , black and white Tanagra figure to the great full creature whom he had seen , but a few days ago , with the salt spray in her hair and the wind in her vestments . And at last she said : `` If I were a woman like you and would n't marry a man who loved me like Jaff Chayne , and who had done for me all that Jaff Chayne had done for you , I 'd pray to God to blast me and fill my body with worms . '' * * * * * And then she burst out of the room , and , like a child seeking protection , came and threw herself down by my side . What happened when she left them I know , because Jaffery kept me up till three o'clock in the morning narrating it to me , while he poured into his Gargantuan self hogsheads of whisky and soda . * * * * * When Liosha had gone , they eyed one another for a while in embarrassing silence , until Doria spoke : `` She misunderstood -- when she came in . Quite natural . It was your touch of pity that I could n't bear .